Please sync xmotd 1.17.3b-5 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Albert Damen]

Please sync xmotd 1.17.3b-5 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

This revision solves the segfault at start-up on amd64, reported below.
xmotd 1.17.3b-5 is a bug fix only update, no new features.
It builds in a hardy pbuilder, installs and runs on hardy amd64 daily updated.
The current version in hardy is 1.17.3b-4 and has no Ubuntu specific changes.

debian/changelog:

xmotd (1.17.3b-5) unstable; urgency=high

  * Patched to include necessary headers, which fixes segfault on x86_64,
    which in turn closes: Bug#458703
  * Fixed some spelling errors in changelog
  * Moved homepage URL from Description: to the new Homepage: field
  * Updated the menu entry to conform to the new menu policy
  * Bumped standards-version to 3.7.3
  * Updated years in debian/copyright

 -- Marcin Owsiany <porridge@d.o> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:09:01 +0000

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Original text:

Binary package hint: xmotd

xmotd segfaults immediately when started on an amd64 system. This is fixed in xmotd 1.17.3b-5.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Apr 6 02:25:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xmotd
Package: xmotd 1.17.3b-4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: xmotd test
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: xmotd
StacktraceTop:
 strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
 vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
 vsprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
 sprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
 getTimeStampName () at main.c:210
Title: xmotd crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy games kvm libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner vde2-net video

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
vsprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
sprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
getTimeStampName () at main.c:210

[Andrea Colangelo (warp10)]

Acked.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Getting binaries for hardy...
[Updating] xmotd (1.17.3b-4 [Ubuntu] < 1.17.3b-5 [Debian])
 * Trying to add xmotd...
  - <xmotd_1.17.3b-5.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <xmotd_1.17.3b.orig.tar.gz: already in distro - downloading from librarian>
  - <xmotd_1.17.3b-5.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: xmotd [universe] -> xmotd_1.17.3b-4 [universe].