Package: eclipse Version: 3.8.1-4 Severity: important Hi, I have been trying to use eclipse for homework for an Android application and I keep getting crashes with an insane frequency.
Upon inspecting the segfaults, I saw messages in my dmesg log pointing to libsoup and I found: http://bugs.debian.org/705420 There, some workarounds are offered, but the final conclusion seems to be that the bug is not with libsoup, with with eclipse itself: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710242#c5 The bug in eclipse is filed at: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=404776 And a small patch is available at: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/commit/?id=b22a7d19afbe2a3811a0f8aa54c1e85d92c62a2c Can we have eclipse rebuilt with this patch, please? This would make eclipse conform to the libsoup API of not passing a null pointer when one is not expected (a correctness argument) and would probably make these insanely frequent crashes that I'm seeing disappear (a usability argument). Thanks in advance, Rogério. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages eclipse depends on: pn eclipse-jdt <none> pn eclipse-pde <none> eclipse recommends no packages. eclipse suggests no packages. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/ DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org