severity 566139 grave retitle 566139 libasyncns0: data alignment issue on armel causes main functionnality breakage thanks
Hello,
I think the maintenance of this package has been pausing for some time.
I am not the maintainer of this package, but I shall try and help to fix
at least this bug (for now).
Le jeudi 21 janvier 2010, Sascha Silbe a écrit :
> The version of libasyncns0 in Debian, 0.3, has data alignment issues
> (casts a uint8_t buffer to a larger data structure, gcc even warns
> about it) that cause it to break non-obviously (tries to send a 1MB
> datagram and fails silently) on armel. Affects at least
> telepathy-gabble (resolving Jabber server fails).
This renders libasyncns0 unusable, affecting other software. This issue
may by upstream commit 9e27222a [1]. As Debian testing is currently
freezed, I shall not update the package to the last upstream version,
but instead backports that exact commit and, if it fixes the issue,
prepare an updated package version. As I am not a Debian Developper, I
will need sponsoring to have it uploaded to Debian, so expect some
delay.
[1]
http://git.0pointer.de/?p=libasyncns.git;a=commit;h=82bc2476ef8bd1f2cbc172729e9704469e27222a
Technically, for the package itself, this will require the introduction
of a backported patch. As it uses no patch system yet, I think I shall
have to change the package format from 1.0 to 3.0 (quilt).
Regards,
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