Friday, January 03, 2020

Re: libxdg-basedir overflow fix

On 2020/01/03 12:15, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 03:42:53AM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The libxdg-basedir package has an overflow bug. This causes
> > games/openttd to crash on startup if "sysctl vm.malloc_conf=C" (or S).
> >
> > Upstream fixed the bug in 2014. However, the latest release is
> > libxdg-basedir-1.2.0, which in three weeks will be eight years old.
>
> given that MASTER_SITES is dead and 'new upstream' seems to be on
> github, why not pointing at github using last commit & labelling it as
> 1.2.0.20170418 (datetime of said last upstream commit ?)
>
> or you dont want the -Werror commit to avoid side effects on non-clang
> archs ?
>

https://github.com/davmac314/libxdg-basedir/releases

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