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Merge lp://staging/~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe into lp://staging/ubuntu/vivid/freetype

  1. Vivid (15.04)
  2. multithread-safe
  3. Merge into vivid
Proposed by Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Status: Merged
Merged at revision: 63
Proposed branch: lp://staging/~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe
Merge into: lp://staging/ubuntu/vivid/freetype
Diff against target: 2133 lines (+2113/-0)
3 files modified
debian/changelog (+7/-0)
debian/patches-freetype/multi-thread-violations.patch (+2105/-0)
debian/patches-freetype/series (+1/-0)
To merge this branch: bzr merge lp://staging/~3v1n0/ubuntu/vivid/freetype/multithread-safe
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
Dmitry Shachnev Needs Information
Review via email: mp+247373@code.staging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Backported patches coming from this patchset [1] that has been just merged upstream [2] and that fixes huge multithread violations that are causing crashes in a lot of places in the upper stack.

Here [3] you can read more details about this patch.

[1] https://github.com/behdad/freetype/tree/ftthread
[2] http://<email address hidden>/msg06780.html
[3] http://<email address hidden>/msg06758.html

For being precise, this patch includes the changes merged in commits:
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=89bc8d4d
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=531d463a
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=747ae2c8
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=8dc86358
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a773c304
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=6dfdaf4d
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=51634253
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=603292d7
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=b2ba6866
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=c242fe41
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=ae6699f8
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a4117fbd
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=c2733656
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=6f16b100
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=56ddafa0
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=48c86628
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=4eff854c
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=264b5e46

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Can we just update to ≥ 2.5.6, instead of cherry-picking a ton of commits?

review: Needs Information
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

Well, I'd say yes... Although it has not been released yet.

And I was also thinking this as something that can be backported to trusty (this is probably one of the more frequent crashes in e.u.c)

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