Re: inotify-tools with dead upstream cannot be fixed in Fedora

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On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 09:33:29PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Fix stack overflow in: `inotifytools_replace_filename`
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741472
> 
> Not sure how to fix this crashing bug. Upstream is dead while Fedora package
> maintainer requires to upstream the fix first. A Catch 22.
> 
> Debian has the crasher fixed by an off-trunk simple patch, Fedora cannot?

I would start by pulling in the Debian fix into the Fedora package.
Then talk to the Debian folk and see if you can set up a simple git
repo on one of the many free hosting services to collect these patches
"upstream".

Rich.

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