Re: Code freeze break request for VTE (segfault fix)

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 23:06 +0200, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> There's a recently discovered flaw in VTE's current development
> series 0.53 that occasionally leads to a segfault when the widget is
> unrealized.
>
> This can lead to all the gnome-terminal windows and tabs being gone
> when one tab is closed.
>
> Previous stable 0.52 is unaffected, the bug sneaked in during a code
> refactoring in the current cycle.
>
> Details and proposed fix at 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/issues/29.
>
> We'd like to fix it for 0.54.0, preferably using Christian's patch
> "p", but if you find that too complex then at least my one-liner
> nullness check as shown in the previous comment (and Christian's
> patch for 0.54.1).

r-t approval 2 of 2 for the "p" patch (as mcatanzaro already gave a +1
on IRC).

andre
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