[Bug 1058289] Re: Critical readline6 patch not included

[Dave Gilbert]

The comments on that change say:

   A change between readline-6.1 and readline-6.2 to prevent the readline input
  hook from being called too frequently had the side effect of causing delays
  when reading pasted input on systems such as Mac OS X.  This patch fixes
  those delays while retaining the readline-6.2 behavior.

I guess perhaps someone thought this was only a  problem for if it was 
_compiled_ on macos; are you saying that this can be triggered by using
a MacOS terminal to log into an ubuntu box running readline?

Dave

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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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