Re: Bug#405876: Subject: gxine: segfault on startup with long HOME dir
I demand that Steve Langasek may or may not have written...
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:24:49AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
[snip]
>> I'll prepare a 0.5.8 update with [the fix for the segfault], but I'd like
>> to know (from an RM's point of view) which of the patches in the existing
>> 0.5.8-2 should make it into etch. I'd like to include, at least, the
>> patches for the locking bugs (-release CC'ed for this reason).
> Why does the diff for -2 in the archive enable watchdog code?
As I explained elsewhere, this is a least-change modification to work around
some locking bugs. The bugs are still there; it just means that gxine won't
hang around for ages if it hits one of them.
> This sounds like a new feature, not a bugfix, and one that hasn't
> previously been tested in Debian.
It has, however, been tested elsewhere - it's enabled in Ubuntu.
> I don't think such a change should be made during the freeze.
Would you rather see the locking bug fixes included?
<URL:http://zap.tartarus.org/~ds/hg/gxine-0.5.8-deb/?cmd=changeset;node=88aca199c66d;style=gitweb>
if you want to see which patches I'd prefer to include. But for that segfault
fix and the freeze, this is what I would prefer to have in the archive.
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