Olly Betts <o...@survex.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:52:45AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > > > > I would greatly appreciate a backport to fix this in Jessie. > > A backport would only fix it for people who take special action and > install from backports (that said, it's probably time to do a backport > so there's a more up to date upstream version easily available for > those who want it).
Errm, sorry, I meant "backport" as a general term for getting a patch into jessie for all jessie users. I forgot the Debian meaning of it is slightly different. > In https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/645 the recoll upstream > maintainer indicated that this happens with 1.2.8 too, and > wheezy has 1.2.12-2 currently, so this issue also affects > wheezy. Interesting. I haven't used Xapian extensively, but have never seen problems on wheezy using the same hardware that was able to reproduce the bug on jessie.