> Does it actually cause crashes for Xenial users in practice? If not,
what's the justification for SRUing it?
Yes indeed, if they had installed any custom .desktop file around. And that
might happen.
It's not xenial issue per se, but there are scenarios where this happens (like
my install).
Or well any snap could for example ship a wrong .desktop file and make
gnome-software not to work...
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Unsubscribing sponsors as there's nothing left to sponsor.
Artful is also EOL.
Ping, Iain and Robie.
** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Artful)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
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> 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
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 09:29:47AM -, Łukasz Zemczak wrote:
> Does this bug indeed also affect artful? If that's the case then we'd
> need it prepared and uploaded for artful before getting the xenial one
> accepted.
Is this policy? If so, it's not one I'm aware of - can you clarify
please?
Does this bug indeed also affect artful? If that's the case then we'd
need it prepared and uploaded for artful before getting the xenial one
accepted.
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** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Artful)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
gnome-software crashes in
seb poked me about this, and now it is uploaded for xenial, thanks!
** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
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appstream-glib (0.7.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Matthias Klumpp ]
* New upstream version: 0.7.7
* Update Vcs-* URLs for switch to Salsa
* d/libappstream-glib8.symbols: Update symbols
* Switch to dh compat
** Description changed:
+ [ 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:
+
** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Artful)
Importance: Undecided => High
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Thanks.
Please could you make the bug description SRU compliant?
For B we should probably fix this by taking the whole new point release.
** Also affects: appstream-glib (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: High
Assignee: Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)
Status: In Progress
** Also
Wrong project, this is not in AppStream, but appstream-glib (thanks for
the patch though! :-) )
** Package changed: appstream (Ubuntu) => appstream-glib (Ubuntu)
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The attachment "Debdiff for xenial package" seems to be a debdiff. The
ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they
can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a
patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the
"patch"
** Patch added: "Debdiff for xenial package"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1744941/+attachment/5041760/+files/appstream-glib-check-desktop-list.patch
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