John Scott

Hi, As with #85 VLAs in structs and unions seems to present another corner case. The following program ``` #include int main(void) { const int k = 13; printf("%zu\n", sizeof(union...

Hi, Some compilers like TinyCC support not only automatically allocating structs and unions with variable-length arrays in them, but also support initializing the VLA member. It normally wouldn't be possible...

Cryptic error message 'unable to open file `/tmp/magick-XXXXXX': No such file or directory @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/614' in zbarimg when missing image format support in MagickCore

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Hi, [We recently discovered this issue when running CI tests on zbarimg in Debian.] If ImageMagick currently doesn't support a particular image format it's trying to read (say because the...

I'm sure this issue is well-known, but I couldn't find an existing issue articulating solutions. The following scanner demonstrates the beginner-unfriendly behavior even when the appropriate locale is enabled. ```...

Use int8_t, int16_t, and int32_t instead of char, short, and int

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The Arb documentation says > The char, short and int types are assumed to be two’s complement types with exactly 8, 16 and 32 bits. This is not technically guaranteed...

Can't use feedkernel; doesn't allow running as root

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Hi, I'm trying out the [tentative solo-python package for Debian](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969453), version 0.0.26, and I can't use feedkernel. ``` $ solo key rng feedkernel Entropy before: 0x3866 Traceback (most recent call...

On Parabola GNU/Linux-libre (libre Arch Linux), the build script can't find Boost. It complains with: `checking for libboost >= 1.39... configure: error: libboost version 1.41 or higher is required to...

This can be distributed by distros to help software centers and users find the packages which contain the firmware, say, when the device is inserted. I'm working on (re-)packaging carl9170...

Hi, These are all three modern privacy and security technologies. Could you look into enabling them? Let me know how I can help.

Please digitally sign your release tarballs

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Hi, For the sake of downstreams, it would be nice if you'd digitally sign your release tarballs with either an OpenPGP key or an S/MIME certificate so they can ascertain...