[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#646619: Bug#646619: fontforge: Crash when reading optimized png files

Christian PERRIER bubulle at debian.org
Wed Oct 26 02:17:13 UTC 2011


Quoting Michael Terry (michael.terry at canonical.com):
> Package: fontforge
> Version: 0.0.20110222-3
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu precise ubuntu-patch
> 
> In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to prevent a crash when reading optimized png files.
> 
> Ubuntu routinely runs optipng on installed png files, and that revealed a bug in fontforge's built-in png reader code.  This probably isn't super important for Debian, as you don't run optipng, but it appears to be a real bug and would let us get in sync again if it was applied.
> 
> I've also forwarded this patch to the fontforge mailing list.
> 
> Thanks for considering the patch.


Thanks for forwarding this...and thanks for reporting upstream too
(which will save me time doing so..:-)

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