[Bug 1058289] [NEW] Critical readline6 patch not included

[John Swensen]

Public bug reported:

There is a fairly critical readline6 bug that has been fixed with an official patch, but none of the major distros seem to have built with the fix.  The patch can be found at 
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.2-patches
The problem in question is fixed by patch 003, but suppose that if a new package is being built that you might as well apply all of them.

The GNU Readline maintainer informed me that you can also get a patched version of 6.2 at
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/readline-master.tar.gz
He also informed me that it is currently uncertain when another official dot-version of 6.2 (or 6.3) will be issued, and suggested I open a bug report with launchpad (and other distros) to try and get the fix incorporated.

A descriptions of the kind of problems this patch can fix, look at our application with GNU Octave described at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-06/msg00008.html
and
https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2012-September/030316.html

Thanks.

** Affects: readline6 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Critical readline6 patch not included

Status in “readline6” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  There is a fairly critical readline6 bug that has been fixed with an official patch, but none of the major distros seem to have built with the fix.  The patch can be found at 
  ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.2-patches
  The problem in question is fixed by patch 003, but suppose that if a new package is being built that you might as well apply all of them.

  The GNU Readline maintainer informed me that you can also get a patched version of 6.2 at
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/readline-master.tar.gz
  He also informed me that it is currently uncertain when another official dot-version of 6.2 (or 6.3) will be issued, and suggested I open a bug report with launchpad (and other distros) to try and get the fix incorporated.

  A descriptions of the kind of problems this patch can fix, look at our application with GNU Octave described at
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-06/msg00008.html
  and
  https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2012-September/030316.html

  Thanks.

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