jed: tighten build-depend on libslang2-dev >= 2.0.7

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Fri May 18 17:23:27 UTC 2007


Package: jed
Version: 0.99.18+dfsg.1-6
Severity: serious

* G. Milde <milde at users.sf.net> [2007-05-18 18:47]:

> Forwarded message from "G. Milde" <milde at users.sourceforge.net>
> > On 17.05.07, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > Package: jed
> > > Version: 0.99.18+dfsg.1-3 
> > 
> > > * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-05-16 11:42]:
> > 
> > > > why do you force a build against libslang2-dev 2.0.7? What's the problem
> > > > with prior versions? I don't see, why we need this.
> > 
> > > I probably had a reason for that when I did the change in SVN revision 655
> > > but I can not remember why.  I will revert this in the next release.
> > 
> > If I remember right, the problem is segfaults with earlier versions if files
> > are preparsed (byte-compiled) that use the "string $varible"$ syntax.
> 
> I found it in http://www.ruptured-duck.com/jed-users/msg01916.html
> 
>   slang-2.0.6 had a bug in the handling of byte-compiled files
>   containing strings with the "$" suffix, e.g.,
>    
>       file = "$HOME/foo.sl"$;
>   
>   This bug was corrected in 2.0.7.
>   
> This is a *grave* bug, so please set up the requirement again.

Okay, I am hereby filing a bug report with severity "serious", such that
this will not be forgotten in the next release.

-- 
Rafael



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