[Bug 1515927] Re: splitpatch hangs on the first patch I tried it on

[Timo Jyrinki]

Removed the 'patch' tag as there's no patch fixing the actual bug, just
a patch showing how the bug happens.

First we'd need a fixed version of splitpatch in a development Ubuntu
version. http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/splitpatch shows that
there's a newer git snapshot in newer Ubuntus, although even that does
not include the 2014 changes.

When/if the splitpatch would be fixed in a development Ubuntu version
and a patch fixing this single issue found, the next step would be to
update this bug according to
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates to prepare backporting the
fix to 14.04.

But first, it would be worth testing whether the
0.0+20131223+gitb13d810-1 version already fixes the issue, it's 6 months
newer than the version in 14.04. The
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/splitpatch_0.0%2B20131223%2Bgitb13d810-1_all.deb
package probably works just fine on 14.04 too since there are no
dependency changes.

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Title:
  splitpatch hangs on the first patch I tried it on

Status in splitpatch package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  My first attempt to use splitpatch caused it to hang on the patch I tried it on.
  This is an up to date Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS installation:
  the splitpatch package version is

    0.0+20130626+gitbd6a83d-1

  The current version of splitpatch found at

  https://github.com/benjsc/splitpatch/blob/46557eeebe743620dedb0a5fa3f2776da508dbee/splitpatch.rb

  has no such problem, and its code is rather different.

  The patch in question is here:

    https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/attachment/43241/SAM-
  1947_samigo-email-notifications_10.x.patch

  Incidentally, patch refuses to apply that patch, saying it is malformed.
  splitpatch still shouldn't hang on it.

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