On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Since we are in freeze, my whining about a single particular > > segfault in h5dump most probably would be ignored in unstable/wheezy, > > and experimental version cannot be uploaded to unstable due to freeze > > procedure recommendations. So would you maintain your position that I > > should stick to unstable with a non-working for my case version?
> Segfaults are generally considered release critical, so I would > suggest filing a bug specifically for that, and it will likely get > fixed. downgraded to sid versions... verified that it still happens, fired up reportbug and then saw: Bugs with severity normal ... 6) #644994 segfault while using h5dump in /usr/lib/libhdf5.so.6 the one I (apparently) filed on 11 Oct 2011 and for which there is a mighty workaround -- to specify "-w 65535" (thanks Sylvestre again). Since it is already a year since then, I obviously forgotten this important workaround ;-) Feel free to raise a severity/fix it. most probably the fix is somewhere among commits upstream since fixed in experimental. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
