backport curl 7.15.5 from Feisty to Edgy

Bug #73476 reported by Paul Zaremba
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #73447: SRU Request to fix Curl Segfault. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

The current curl in Edgy (7.15.4-1ubuntu2) has bugs that cause programs that use "multi" transactions (like bzflag) to crash.

I have manually compiled curl 7.15.5 from Feisty as a workaround on my personal system. In my opinion, the fixed version needs to be backported from Feisty so that the general population has a non-crashing library like they had in Dapper.

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Valentin Rocher (bishiboosh) wrote :

Builds in prevu, installs correctely and seems to run as wanted. +1 for me.

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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

Likewise, appears to work fine here, too.

Changed in edgy-backports:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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zenrox (kergan) wrote :

+1 here

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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

Approved for backporting.

Changed in edgy-backports:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote :

Please do this as an SRU. Backports are for shiny new features, not for bugfixes. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/SRU

Changed in edgy-backports:
status: In Progress → Rejected
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Paul Zaremba (pez-launchpad) wrote :

Since we need a bug report for the SRU, I just followed the wiki directions and added motu-sru to the CC list of this bug.

A summary for the team:
bzflag, and other programs that use libcurl, crash due to a bug in libcurl that has been fixed in Feisty.

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Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville) wrote :

An SRU is already in progress that fixes this bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/edgy/+source/curl/+bug/73447

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