On Sep 30, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Dave Gilbert wrote: > The comments on that change say: > > A change between readline-6.1 and readline-6.2 to prevent the readline input > hook from being called too frequently had the side effect of causing delays > when reading pasted input on systems such as Mac OS X. This patch fixes > those delays while retaining the readline-6.2 behavior. > > I guess perhaps someone thought this was only a problem for if it was > _compiled_ on macos; are you saying that this can be triggered by using > a MacOS terminal to log into an ubuntu box running readline? > > Dave > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058289 > > Title: > Critical readline6 patch not included > > Status in “readline6” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > There is a fairly critical readline6 bug that has been fixed with an > official patch, but none of the major distros seem to have built with the > fix. The patch can be found at > ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.2-patches > The problem in question is fixed by patch 003, but suppose that if a new > package is being built that you might as well apply all of them. > > The GNU Readline maintainer informed me that you can also get a patched > version of 6.2 at > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/readline-master.tar.gz > He also informed me that it is currently uncertain when another official > dot-version of 6.2 (or 6.3) will be issued, and suggested I open a bug report > with launchpad (and other distros) to try and get the fix incorporated. > > A descriptions of the kind of problems this patch can fix, look at our > application with GNU Octave described at > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-06/msg00008.html > and > > https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2012-September/030316.html > > Thanks. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/readline6/+bug/1058289/+subscriptions
No, this bug affects Ubuntu boxes also. I think it was just originally reported by an OSX user, but that it affects all users of unpatched Readline 6.2. John -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058289 Title: Critical readline6 patch not included To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/readline6/+bug/1058289/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
