id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc distribution status_field 20 hulahop_get_view_for_window implicitly converted to pointer morgs marcopg "Debian http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505459 Package: sugar-hulahop Version: 0.4.7~dfsg-1 Severity: serious Tags: patch Usertags: implicit-pointer-conversion Our automated buildd log filter[1] detected a problem that is likely to cause your package to segfault on architectures where the size of a pointer is greater than the size of an integer, such as ia64 and amd64. Function `hulahop_get_view_for_window' implicitly converted to pointer at hulahop.c:315 Function `hulahop_get_view_for_window' implicitly converted to pointer at hulahop.c:315 This is often due to a missing function prototype definition. For more information, see [2]. Though it is guaranteed that this codepath will cause a segfault on certain architectures, it is not guaranteed that this codepath would ever be executed (e.g., if the returned pointer is never dereferenced). However, this bug does prevent the ia64 buildd from successfully building this package, resulting in a practical FTBFS issue and warranting the serious severity. The following patch appears to fix the problem for me - there certainly maybe better ways to do it. [1] http://people.debian.org/~dannf/check-implicit-pointer-functions [2] http://wiki.debian.org/ImplicitPointerConversions {{{ --- sugar-hulahop-0.4.7~dfsg/python/hulahop.override~ 2008-10-08 04:50:05.000000000 -0600 +++ sugar-hulahop-0.4.7~dfsg/python/hulahop.override 2008-11-12 09:02:25.000000000 -0700 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include #include +#include ""hulahop.h"" #include ""hulahop-web-view.h"" %% }}}" defect closed minor hulahop fixed r+