Bug#353798: gtranslator: improper use of GError

[Emil Nowak]

Package: gtranslator
Version: 1.1.6-3
Severity: normal

I was working with gtranslator and gtraslator crashed displaying this error
message:

(gtranslator:10039): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
The overwriting error message was: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input

I don't know correct recipe to reporoduce that. But as you can see upstream
authors made some error handling here. Unfortutnatly it seems that they didn't
used GError in the right way.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages gtranslator depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.17-1          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15            0.60.4-2          GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.10.3-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.10.1-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.10.1-2          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.3.5-11          GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4            2.12.1-9          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.8.6-1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0            2.12.0.1-5        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.12.0-2          A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.12.1-1          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         2.12.2-5          GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.8.12-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtkspell0           2.0.10-3          a spell-checking addon for GTK's T
ii  libice6                6.9.0.dfsg.1-1    Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2              1:2.12.4-1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.10.3-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0               1.7-5             lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1    X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                2.6.23.dfsg.1-0.1 GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-2    X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-9         compression library - runtime

gtranslator recommends no packages.

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