[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#452754: fontforge: segfaults or otherwise panics for no apparant reason

[Samuel Bronson]

On Nov 26, 2007 5:55 AM, Kęstutis Biliūnas <kebil at kaunas.init.lt> wrote:
> tags 452754 pending
> thanks
>
> Sk, 2007 11 25 13:58 -0500, Samuel Bronson rašė:
>
> > Well... just now I was merely drawing some corner points and a bit of
> > deleting, and and then as I moved the mouse around I got one of those
> > "double-free or corruption" crashes...
>
> > Copyright (c) 2000-2007 by George Williams.
> >  Executable based on sources from 14:58 2-Oct-2007.
> > *** glibc detected *** fontforge: double free or corruption (fasttop):
> > 0x0807e530 ***
>
> Yes, I also got several times a crash similar to yours. But now I have
> prepared the new version (0.0.20071110-1) of FontForge package for
> Debian and with this new version I am not able to reproduce such the
> crash. So, I consider that this bug will be closed on the next upload.
>
> New package can be found on my apt repository at
> http://kebil.ghost.lt/debian/pool/fontforge/
>
> Christian, could you please upload this?

I can't help but wonder if it won't happen again if we don't figure
out what changed and prevent it (perhaps with more strict
dependencies) :-(.