lbzip2 crashed with error "retrieve.c:275: YBdec_retrieve: Assertion `in_avail >= 1' failed."

[Anton Samets]

Ubuntu 12.04 with last updates.

On a big size of files with lbzip2 we get:
lbunzip2: retrieve.c:275: YBdec_retrieve: Assertion `in_avail >= 1' failed.

lbzip2 --version
lbzip2 version 2.1

Copyright (C) 2011 Mikolaj Izdebski
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010 Laszlo Ersek

As we see, this bug was fixed in version 2.2, but this patch not applied in ubuntu 12.04 so it's very strange because 12.04 is LTS.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04

# apt-cache policy lbzip2
lbzip2:
  Installed: 2.1-2
  Candidate: 2.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.1-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mikolaj Izdebski (zurgunt)]

As upstream maintainer and Debian package maintainer I can confirm this was fixed in 2.2. Fixed version (2.2) is available in current stable release (quantal), but Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) is still affected.

I don't maintain this package in Ubuntu, nor I know Ubuntu update policies, but If maintainers are interested in fixing this I can work on a patch.

[Anton Samets (bock-bynets)]

Normal practice, as I know is get patch for fix this error and make version 2.1-3 :)

[Anton Samets (bock-bynets)]

Does something needed from me or we should wait?

[Mikolaj Izdebski (zurgunt)]

I don't think it will be ever fixed as only severe bugs and security vulnerabilities are generally fixed in stalbe releases.

[Anton Samets (bock-bynets)]

Guys, it's not so funny. Is anyone will try to fix this bug?

[Коренберг Марк (socketpair)]

WTF? this bug is also affecting me. Hay! where Shuttleworth looks to?