[Bug 286906] Re: provide and support a top-level library package for libmozjs (Was: Unable to use libmozjs.so in an application, because of library path problem.)

2010-11-19 Thread Jim Blandy
What is it about Debian's strategy that is 'right'? Are they simply packing up successive versions under different package names that can be installed in parallel, and killing off versions as soon as practical? What in the world do they do for maintenance? Cherry-picking patches from modern Spider

[Bug 624945] [NEW] libpthread has very strange .eh_frame contents

2010-08-26 Thread Jim Blandy
Public bug reported: I'm looking at libpthread from http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1 amd64, whose sha1sum is: 29b0368a599cdd725078d2d2a932b416a6c81817 lib/libpthread-2.11.1.so readelf -wf libpthread-2.11.1.so says, among other things: 1440 004c 1374 FDE cie=

[Bug 624945] Re: libpthread has very strange .eh_frame contents

2010-08-26 Thread Jim Blandy
Unless I've made a mistake, lucid-updates has the same libpthread. -- libpthread has very strange .eh_frame contents https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubun

[Bug 582347] Re: etags screw filenames starting with ./

2010-09-14 Thread Jim Blandy
The problem is in lib-src/etags.c's function absolute_filename. If HAVE_MEMMOVE is not #defined, it uses strcpy to try to squeeze out unnecessary '/./' sequences from the path name. However, strcpy behaves unpredictably when the source and destination overlap. The question to resolve is, why is H