Bug#856387: unblock: mbrola/3.01h+2-2

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 28/02/17 14:51, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The upgrade of libc6 to version 2.23 seems to have triggered a bug
> in mbrola, which makes it just always crash at exit, thus making it
> unusable (bug #856331).
> 
> mbrola is non-free, we don't even have the source code (University of
> Mons sent me a source code, but an older version, which does not have
> the crash) so we just can't investigate.  However, since it is at exit,
> an ugly workaround is possible: just make the exit() function call the
> exit() system call, without trying to clean stuff. It happens that
> mbrola properly closes its output before calling exit(), so that does
> not hurt the purpose of mbrola.
> 
> I have attached the debdiff that adds this workaround.

That's one nasty workaround... but ok.

Cheers,
Emilio