Bug 746704 – net-irc/irssi-1.2.2 with >=dev-libs/glib-2.63 hangs upon receiving ctrl-space

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Tomasz Golinski 2020-10-05 08:51:33 UTC]

There is a bug in IRSSI which causes it to hang (more precisely - stop accepting any input) due to a recent change in GLib. There is an upstream patch for this issue:

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/pull/1183

There seems to be no sign of a new release of irssi with this patch, so it would be nice to have it added to Portage, as the issue is really annoying.





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start irssi
2. press e.g. ctrl-space or ctrl-2
3. irrsi shows new messages but fails to accept any input from the user

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2020-10-05 09:06:02 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ec0152d219b9d7db6859d8257072c1b78f12dd77

commit ec0152d219b9d7db6859d8257072c1b78f12dd77
Author:     Lars Wendler <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2020-10-05 09:05:41 +0000
Commit:     Lars Wendler <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2020-10-05 09:05:58 +0000

    net-irc/irssi: Revbump to fix input issue with >=dev-libs/glib-2.63
    
    Thanks-to: Tomasz Golinski <[e-mail]>
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/746704
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.8, Repoman-3.0.1
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <[e-mail]>

 .../irssi-1.2.2-glib-2.63_NUL_unicode_fix.patch    | 38 ++++++++++++
 net-irc/irssi/irssi-1.2.2-r1.ebuild                | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 105 insertions(+)

[Comment 2 Tomasz Golinski 2020-10-05 09:53:49 UTC]

That was fast! Thank you, seems to work fine.