On 28/02/17 14:51, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: unblock > > Hello, > > The upgrade of libc6 to version 2.23 seems to have triggered a bug > in mbrola, which makes it just always crash at exit, thus making it > unusable (bug #856331). > > mbrola is non-free, we don't even have the source code (University of > Mons sent me a source code, but an older version, which does not have > the crash) so we just can't investigate. However, since it is at exit, > an ugly workaround is possible: just make the exit() function call the > exit() system call, without trying to clean stuff. It happens that > mbrola properly closes its output before calling exit(), so that does > not hurt the purpose of mbrola. > > I have attached the debdiff that adds this workaround.
That's one nasty workaround... but ok. Cheers, Emilio
