Re: Requesting freeze exception for cwidget

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Daniel Burrows [Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:54:26 -0700]:

>   Hi,

>   I'd like to request a freeze exemption for the cwidget library so
> that 0.5.12-3 can replace 0.5.12-1.

>   The 0.5.12-3 upload fixes a nasty string-handling bug in "swsprintf",
> a safe sprintf replacement that's used all over cwidget and aptitude.
> As far as I know the impact is limited to adding garbage at the end of
> long output strings, but it's already caused problems for users of
> aptitude in the Russian locale. (#496119)

>   I also fixed ssprintf in some cases where it failed to call va_end();
> from the manpage, I think this was at least a potential memory leak.

Unblocked.

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