Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#42034 closed defect (fixed)
gfontsampler: fails with segfault on startup.
| Reported by: | dbevans (David B. Evans) | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 2.2.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) | |
| Port: | gfontsampler |
Description
Mac OS X 10.8.5 Xcode 5.0.2
Segfaults on startup as after many CRITICAL warning messages. Terminal output showing failure mode attached.
This is a very old port that appears to have had no upstream development since 1999 or so. Original homepage no longer exists and nomaintainer. Failure mode suggests non-compliance with current gtk2, pango API standards.
Is this worth fixing (required effort unknown) or is it a candidate for obsolescence, deletion?
Attachments (1)
Change History (5)
Changed 10 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)
| Attachment: | terminal_output.txt added |
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comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Maybe other package management systems already have patches for these issues?
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)
The only one I could find was the Mandrivia 2011 distribution and it is no help -- only patches the desktop file for XDG compatibility. Besides, I think that gnome-font-viewer currently provided by gnome-utils is probably a reasonable replacement. However, it needs to be updated see #42035. Of course, if this is someone's favorite app then maybe they would step up as maintainer.
comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)
Since no one has come forward to claim maintainership for this port and gnome-font-viewer has now been updated, I propose to mark this port as obsolete replaced by gnome-font-viewer later this week. If you have an objection now is the time to speak up.
comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Marked obsolete replaced by gnome-font-viewer in r116488.
Terminal output showing failure