Bug#788101: [qgis] Crashes in initialization of spatialite

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: tags -1 confirmed upstream

> Any attempt at connecting to spatialite database produces segmentation
> fault.

This is a known issue sinds the proj 4.9.1 transition.

It was first reported in spatialite-bin (#785091), but it affects all
software built on top of libspatialite. See my comment in the bug report
and the links therein:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785091#60

The spatialite code in QGIS was fixed recently, see:

http://hub.qgis.org/issues/12771

These changes have been backported to upcoming QGIS 2.8.3 release:

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/d7ca190295079957a8d0ef446cd834351020e901

QGIS 2.8.3 will be uploaded as soon as possible, but it won't reach the
archive until the FTP masters get around to accepting it from the NEW
queue (where QGIS 2.8.2 resides since its release).

This spatialite segfault has been discussed upstream too, see:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2015-May/041806.html
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2015-May/037824.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/spatialite-users/83SOajOJ2JU/sgi5fuYAVVkJ

As discussed in the SpatiaLite transition thread on debian-gis@ we need to
complete both the gdal & spatialite transition get fixed versions into the
next stable release. See:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/05/msg00035.html

Kind Regards,

Bas