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and subject line Bug#1120967: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #562765,
regarding cheese segfaults immediately upon startup
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Package: cheese
Version: 2.28.1-1
Severity: important
cheese segfaults immediately on my system (which has (2) V4L devices,
the first being a TV capture card, the second being a webcam, which
works as expected under gqcam).
Here is the output:
$ cheese
(cheese:12434): GStreamer-WARNING **: pad source:src returned caps which are
not a real subset of its template caps
libv4l2: error converting / decoding frame data: v4l-convert: error destination
buffer too small (0 < 1036800)
Segmentation fault
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii gconf2 2.28.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.25-7 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.17-1 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.25-7 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libebook1.2-9 2.28.2-1 Client library for evolution addre
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-desktop-2-11 2.28.2-1 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.25-7 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.25-4 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.5-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.14-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii librsvg2-2 2.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii gvfs 1.4.3-1 userspace virtual filesystem - ser
cheese suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 44.1-5+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package cheese has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1120967
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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