> Malformed .desktop files might causes crashes... Does it actually cause crashes for Xenial users in practice? If not, what's the justification for SRUing it?
> Is this policy? I'm not sure. Perhaps we should clarify it on a mailing list and then document the answer, because it's something that I think comes up fairly regularly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream-glib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1744941 Title: gnome-software crashes in as_app_parse_desktop_file Status in appstream-glib package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in appstream-glib source package in Xenial: In Progress Status in appstream-glib source package in Artful: Confirmed Status in appstream-glib source package in Bionic: Fix Released Bug description: [ Impact ] Malformed .desktop files might causes crashes because the returned list is NULL. [ Test case ] - Download and copy in one of your XDG_DATA_DIRS (i.e. ~/.local/share/applications) this .desktop file: https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/files/1656100/org.gnome.frogr.desktop.gz - Run gnome-software it must not crash. [ Regression potential ] Missing metadata from .desktop files, but really this is just a null- checks fix, so not really anything might go worse. ---- See more at upstream bug: https://github.com/hughsie/appstream- glib/pull/221 This affects all the releases since xenial. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream-glib/+bug/1744941/+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
