Bug#734674: eclipse: Frequently segfaults under some circumstances

[Rogério Brito]

Package: eclipse
Version: 3.8.1-4
Severity: important

Hi, I have been trying to use eclipse for homework for an Android
application and I keep getting crashes with an insane frequency.

Upon inspecting the segfaults, I saw messages in my dmesg log pointing to
libsoup and I found:

    http://bugs.debian.org/705420

There, some workarounds are offered, but the final conclusion seems to be
that the bug is not with libsoup, with with eclipse itself:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710242#c5

The bug in eclipse is filed at:

    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=404776

And a small patch is available at:

    http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/commit/?id=b22a7d19afbe2a3811a0f8aa54c1e85d92c62a2c


Can we have eclipse rebuilt with this patch, please?

This would make eclipse conform to the libsoup API of not passing a null
pointer when one is not expected (a correctness argument) and would probably
make these insanely frequent crashes that I'm seeing disappear (a usability
argument).


Thanks in advance,

Rogério.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages eclipse depends on:
pn  eclipse-jdt  <none>
pn  eclipse-pde  <none>

eclipse recommends no packages.

eclipse suggests no packages.

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