Package: gnome-hearts
Version: 0.1.3-1
Severity: grave
Hi,
I've already commented on this in bug #396043, but I'm afraid that it will
get lost there, what with the Etch freeze, and my problem doesn't appear
to be quite the same as that one anyway (though it may have been
introduced by the fix for it).
Basically, as soon as I try to start gnome-hearts, it crashes, rendering
the package completely unusable for me. The reason for the crash appears
to be the way load_card_styles() in hearts.c works. It assembles a hash
table of all the available card styles, and then calls:
g_hash_table_foreach(game_card_styles, card_style_add, NULL);
This NULL pointer is passed as the 'first_style' parameter to
card_style_add(), where it's dereferenced like this:
if (*first_style == NULL)
*first_style = g_string_new(value);
This, of course, causes a crash. So what it probably *should* say
instead is something like this:
g_hash_table_foreach(game_card_style, card_style_add, &first_style);
Incidentally, this is pretty much what it says in the original version of
card_style_add(), before the Debian-specific patches have been applied,
except that card_style_add is cast to a GHFunc. The patched line is
identical to what it looked like in 0.1.2, though, so I guess the Debian
patch just wasn't correctly updated to 0.1.3.
Sincerely,
Torbjörn Andersson
