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** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Artful)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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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:
Won't Fix
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.
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See more at upstream bug: https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-
glib/pull/221
This affects all the releases since xenial.
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