Bug 290539

Summary:	app-portage/portage-utils-0.2.1 stable request
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Stefan Huber <shuber>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Utils Team <portage-utils>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	STABLEREQ
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Huber 2009-10-26 08:51:00 UTC

Version 0.1.29 and 0.2 contains a segfault bug which occurs (due to qdepends.c:296) when use-flags exist that are longer than a given number (40 chars). On two of my system qdepends actually crashes with a segfault. (Unfortunately now bug report his listed here and I had to find the bug again :))

Version 0.2.1 has been fixed. Since qdepends crashes now permanently I would vote for hard-mask version <0.2.1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. qdepends -Q whateveryoulike

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-10-26 10:07:21 UTC

It doesn't work like that, instead you should be asking 0.2.1 for stable.

Comment 2 Stefan Huber 2009-10-26 11:10:54 UTC

Let me make my point more clear: A major feature (qdepends) of versions <=0.2 are broken due to a segfault. Therefore they should be hard-masked. As a consequence and under the assumption that there should be at least one stable version, one would have to mark 0.2.1 as stable.

However, in the first place I argue to hard mask versions <=0.2 since it is not completely clear to me whether there should be a stable version at all. That depends on the quality of version 0.2.1 (and future versions above). Anyhow, I am not maintainer, so I am glad if my suggestions are discussed.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-12-05 10:02:41 UTC

now stable