highlight crashes by executing in a shell

[David]

Binary package hint: highlight

just execute in the shell
highlight -L --ansi foo.h

[David (dtschaefer)]

If you instead would pipe the output into a file it works.
highlight -L -f foo.h > foo.tex

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

Hi, and thanks for taking the time to submit this bug report.

Confirmed on edgy, highlight-2.4.5-1. Note that your second example isn't equivalent to the first example. I can't get "highlight -L --ansi /usr/include/stdio.h" to "work", output to a file or no. The key seems to be the --ansi option, which reliably segfaults. (Note that combining -L with --ansi is a meaningless combination; --ansi will override -L).

I have confirmed that it seems to work fine in feisty, with highlight-2.4.8-1, and also in dapper, with highlight-2.4.2-1. It seems that this might qualify for an SRU to edgy from feisty...

[Micah Cowan (micahcowan)]

Confirmed with crimsun and ajmitch that this is an SRU candidate.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The 18 month support period for Edgy Eft 6.10 has reached it's end of life. As a result, we are closing this task. I've tried testing against Hardy and have been unable to reproduce this issue. If you do notice any regressions, feel free to open a new report. Thanks.