Bug#505901: libfaad and uint32_t....

2008-11-17 Thread Matthew W. S. Bell
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 07:05 +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > It really isn't obvious what 02_public-headers.dpatch aims to do and > why, it looks very dangerous (which is why this bug report was > initially written). Ack. > By the way, why does the patch change a string to an int8_t*? > (NeAACDecGe

Bug#505901: libfaad and uint32_t....

2008-11-16 Thread Max Kellermann
On 2008/11/17 00:47, "Matthew W. S. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 19:13 +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > > There is no documentation on that issue in the Debian package - no > > README.Debian, and no documentation in the patch file. Would you mind > > to add it? > > Other

Bug#505901: libfaad and uint32_t....

2008-11-16 Thread Matthew W. S. Bell
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 19:13 +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > There is no documentation on that issue in the Debian package - no > README.Debian, and no documentation in the patch file. Would you mind > to add it? Other than adding a note to README.Debian that a patch has been added that makes the p

Bug#505901: libfaad and uint32_t....

2008-11-16 Thread Max Kellermann
severity 505901 minor thanks Sorry for the traffic - after some more research, I found that the libfaad headers are inconsistent: internally, it uses uint32_t*. This is a very unfortante situation, since even non-bugged software will break on Debian, assuming that passing a long pointer is correc