I would really like to see this go through as an SRU to Xenial. I am hitting a problem with my third-party repo 100% of the time. When I have the repo enabled, apt-get update hangs indefinitely when it runs appstreamcli at the end, and I assume all of the users of my repo are experiencing the same problem. With a package built using the debdiff given here, apt-get and appstreamcli run just fine.
If the size of the changes here are a problem, the one-liner mentioned above would be sufficient for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579712 Title: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string Status in appstream package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in appstream source package in Xenial: New Bug description: [Impact] * The cache refresh is blocked on a strdup on a non-NULL-terminated string in some very rare occasions (very rare because this bug is present for almost 3y without a single report). * Fixing this bug resolves the issue for people who might experience it. * See https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/35 for details. [Test Case 1] * Run `sudo appstreamcli refresh --force` * The AppStream cache should be updated, no change in behavior should be seen. [Test Case 2] * In case you were experiencing the almost-infinite hang when running `sudo appstreamcli refresh --force`, this issue should be fixed with the SRU. [Regression Potential] * Very low, since this only fixes the decompression code. There should be no sideeffects of that (given that the patch itself doesn't break anything, which it shouldn't, since it has been tested upstream for a while) [Other Info] * This fix has been applied upstream: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/f33c520c37e2ba51d92402220250b8d501a2bf43 * A smaller version of the patch (one-liner) is available, at the expense of not having reduced memory usage: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/378941787d3584b3eb31a6ebe40e0aacc10e180a To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1579712/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
