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Cake day: June 24th, 2020

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  • Many of the files have been created by hand with a hex editor, thus there is no better “source code” than the files themselves.

    I don’t buy that. There would have been some rationale behind the contents that could be automated, like “compressed file with bytes 3-7 in the header zeroed”.

    You also probably don’t need these test files to be available in the environment where the library itself is built. There are various ways you could avoid that.

    I do agree about the autotools stuff though.

    Minor differences in those files are perfectly normal as the contents of them are copied in from the shared autoconf-archive project, but every distro ships a different version of that, so what any given thing looks like will depend on the maintainer’s computer.

    This seems avoidable. We shouldn’t be copying code around like that.



  • All of this would be avoided if Debian downloaded from GitHub’s distributions of the source code, albeit unsigned.

    In that case they would have just put it in the repo, and I’m not convinced anyone would have caught it. They may have obfuscated it slightly more.

    It’s totally reasonable to trust a tarball signed by the maintainer, but there probably needs to be more scrutiny when a package changes hands like this one did.




  • There’s a couple of ways I could imagine debugging this.

    One would be to disassemble MapEngine.MapsContainer.IsExists and see why it would throw that exception. It’s quite strange because it should act like it’s running on windows.

    The other would be to enable WINEDBG stuff or possibly use strace to figure out what it did before throwing that exception.

    Have you tried 32-bit wine?



  • Hmm, nothing there looks like an index display. My vive looks like:

    DisplayPort-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
       2160x1200     89.53 +
       1920x1200     89.53
       1920x1080     89.53
       1600x1200     89.53
       1680x1050     89.53
       1280x1024     89.53
       1440x900      89.53
       1280x800      89.53
       1280x720      89.53
       1024x768      89.53
       800x600       89.53
       720x480       60.00    59.94
       640x480       60.00    59.94
    

    Perhaps there’s a good reason for that, but this seems like a dead-end.