GNU bug report logs - #23217
xboing bugs

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jean Louis <guix <at> rcdrun.com>

Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 18:50:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: John Darrington <jmd <at> gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>, 23217 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jean Louis <guix <at> rcdrun.com>
Subject: bug#23217: xboing bugs
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 <jmd <at> gnu.org> skribis:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 04:45:11PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> >> John Darrington <jmd <at> gnu.org> 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???.
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