tags 323425 -patch done dann frazier wrote:
Package: cronolog Version: 1.6.2-5 Severity: important Tags: patchOur automated buildd log filter[1] detected a problem[2] that will cause your package to segfault on architectures where the size of a pointer is greater than the size of an integer, such as ia64. _XOPEN_SOURCE must be defined when using the strptime() function. See strptime(3) for details. There might be a more autoconfy patch, but this one works. [1]http://people.debian.org/~dannf/check-implicit-pointer-functions [2]Function `strptime' implicitly converted to pointer at cronoutils.c:673
I have applied a fix to the package, and stand duly chastized for having failed to follow up on it in a more useful fashion. Mea culpa. However, the patch provided is not the most appropriate way to fix the problem; since it involves adding a -D flag to CFLAGS, this is perfectly capable of happening in the debian/rules file, rather than requiring a source patch (I guess you could call that 'more autoconfy'; certainly, it seems cleaner).
However, since I have changed the behavior, it would be helpful if I could arrange to validate that the -6 package will, in fact, correctly solve this problem on a 64-bit architecture. Since I don't particularly trust that I can verify this sufficiently, myself, would it be possible to get a test build verified in some fashion?
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