Subject: bug#23217: xboing bugs

From: John Darrington <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:14:03 -0400

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:27:48PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> John Darrington <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 04:45:11PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> >> John Darrington <[email-masked]> skribis:
> >> 
> >> > You have to run it with the -usedefcmap option.  Then it works
> >> > just fine.
> >> 
> >> Can we improve on this or should we close the bug?
> >> 
> >
> >  I see that debian has some quite extensive patches to Xboing, 
> > which seems to fix this issue and many others.
> >
> > Should we purloin them?
> 
> I would suggest taking only those that fix serious bugs such as this
> one.  WDYT?

It depends on what you consider as serious.  Some of them fix potential
buffer overflows.  Debian considers that a serious bug.

> Ludo???.