[Evolution] Bug#378057: Format String bug in task description field

Øystein Gisnås oystein at gisnas.net
Mon May 7 21:41:22 UTC 2007


2007/5/7, Craig Shelley <craig at microtron.org.uk>:
> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 11:13 +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> > 2007/5/6, Craig Shelley <craig at microtron.org.uk>:
> > > On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 01:57 +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote:
> > > > I'm unable to reproduce the bug reported at
> > > > http://bugs.debian.org/378057 in Evolution 2.10.1. Can you please
> > > > verify that the bug is indeed fixed?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Øystein
> > >
> > > It looks like this bug has been fixed for tasks, however it still exists
> > > for memos.
> > >
> > > If I put a %s (or other format characters) anywhere within the memo
> > > content, when the message is attempted to be displayed in the preview
> > > pane, evolution crashes.
> > > The only way to delete the message is by editing files in ~/.evolution,
> > > then kill evolution-data-server
> > >
> > > regards,
> >
> > Strange. No problems putting %s in the content here..
> >
> > Can you try one more time to be completely sure this problem is still
> > present? First, verify that you're running the latest and greatest.
> > 'dpkg -l evolution-data-server' should give you version 1.10.1-2. Do
> > the same with libebook1.2-9 and libedata-book1.2-2. Evolution itself
> > should be version 2.10.1-2.
> >
>
> Ah, sorry I'm using a different version.
>
> If I recall, when I first posted the bug report, I was using Sarge. I am
> now using etch, and the following versions of the evolution packages:
> ii  evolution                       2.6.3-6
> ii  evolution-common                2.6.3-6
> ii  evolution-data-server           1.6.3-5
> ii  evolution-data-server-common    1.6.3-5
> ii  evolution-plugins               2.6.3-6

Ah, good. Then there are still good hopes it's fixed in 2.10.1.. I
would appreciate if you report back here whenever you upgrade to a
newer version. Right now 2.10.1 is only in unstable.

Cheers,
Øystein




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