Re: inotify-tools with dead upstream cannot be fixed in Fedora
On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:33:32 +0200, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 09:33:29PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Fix stack overflow in: `inotifytools_replace_filename`
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741472
>
> Not sure how to fix this crashing bug. Upstream is dead while Fedora package
> maintainer requires to upstream the fix first. A Catch 22.
>
> Debian has the crasher fixed by an off-trunk simple patch, Fedora cannot?
I would start by pulling in the Debian fix into the Fedora package.
This is what I tried in the Bug above and I failed. So I have submitted
a request to become co-maintainer with no response so far.
(Besides that the Debian fix compared to my fix is a hack, not properly coded
from programming point of view. But I agree the Debian fix does work.)
Then talk to the Debian folk and see if you can set up a simple git
repo on one of the many free hosting services to collect these patches
"upstream".
There is already upstream but its maintainer does not respond. So do you mean
to make a new upstream? Is it really required to push 2 characters of a fix to
Fedora package?
Jan