Bug - Kopete crashing

[Scott Kitterman]

"Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thursday 25 October 2012 15:53:57 Pali Rohár wrote:
>> On Thursday 25 October 2012 09:09:51 Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> > On Thursday, October 25, 2012 02:31:52 PM Pali Rohár wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > > 
>> > > last version of Kopete (part of KDE4.9) is always crashing
>> > > when moving or deleting contact. This is really annoying. I
>> > > was able to write patch which seems fixing it, see patch in
>> > > bugzilla: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229996#c10
>> > > 
>> > > Please consider testing above patch and backport it to
>> > > Kubuntu. I think that this bug is present in older version
>> > > of Kopete too but it is hard to reproduce it (it is some
>> > > kind of race condition).
>> > 
>> > I see you've gotten this committed upstream for KDE SC 4.9.3.
>> > That will be out in a couple of weeks and we'll package it
>> > for
>> > an update to 12.10:
>> > 
>> > http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.9_Release_Schedule
>> > 
>> > Your fix will automatically be included with that since
>> > you've
>> > done the upstream work already.  Is this an important enough
>> > issue that it can't wait for 4.9.3?
>> > 
>> > Scott K
>> 
>> Problem is that I was not able to move any contact to another
>> metacontact. When I tried that Kopete immediatelly crashed. So
>> in this release of Kopete it it not possible to change/delete
>> any (meta)contact. And I think this is really big problem
>> which should be fixed as soon as possible. You can also see
>> how many users reported this crash:
>> 
>> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=kopete&long_desc_type=
>> substring&long_desc=Kopete%3A%3AMetaContact%3A%3AisOnline
>
>I really suggest to include patch which fixing crashing of kopete 
>to ubuntu. I think it is important!

I've uploaded this for quantal and raring.  See 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenetwork/+bug/1072785 for details.

Scott K