Re: Quick GTK+ 2.0.8

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Arnaud Charlet <charlet ACT-Europe FR> writes:

> > You need to provide a patch if you want it in a quick release :-). 
> 
> No problem, you can generate the patch yourself:
> 
> cvs diff -u -rgtk-2_0_7 -rgtk-2_0_6 io-gif.c
> 
> Only two small changes  have been done between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
> - one introduced a typo that broke the builds
> - the other one introduced a bug in the decoding of the image
> 
> All in about 5 lines, congrats :-)

You know, we _don't_ just make random changes; the changes did
have a point, and if they broke your GIF image, we have 
to analyse why, not just revert them.

For instance, it's conceivable that your image is actually
invalid and triggered an out-of-bounds write that we are
now catching.

Regards,
                                        Owen