Any chances of getting this fixed before the LTS “support” ends? I notice that quantal is already without this patch. So I wonder, was it dropped because some other change made it unneccessary, or was it dropped simply because it broke more than it fixed. If the latter, then please drop the patch for precise as well, and publish an update. If the former, then please identify that change and backport it.
I do hope that devs have some secret location where they can find out about why this change to the series file happened. Looking at the debian changelog in the package sources, I see no mention of the patch at all. None of the changes between precise and quantal mentions anything close to this patch. But perhaps devs have the means to figure out the rationale here. While you are at it, you might as well get rid of that patch completely. Having a patch in the debian patches directory but its line commented out in the series is very confusing, I think. If you want to keep old stuff around, use a proper VCS please. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libjpeg-turbo in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1031718 Title: Obscure error messages caused by ubuntu patch Status in “libjpeg-turbo” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Environment: Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 libjpeg-turbo8 1.1.90+svn733-0ubuntu4.1 Ubuntu's own patch (FixLibraryStartup.patch) causes obscure "Error opening file for reading: Permission denied" error messages. The patch adds some auxv related stuff to the library init that attempt to read /proc/self/auxv. If it fails the above error is printed usually ending up to application's log that's using the library. Looking at the log it's completely unclear where that error came from and what file was it trying to read. The /proc/self/auxv has 0400 permissions and is owned by the user who started the process. If the process drops privileges and setuid()'s to another user, the file is no longer readable. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libjpeg-turbo/+bug/1031718/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
