Bug#372769: patch aborts with "pch.c:622: intuit_diff_type: Assertion `i0 != NONE' failed." (fwd)

[Christoph Berg]

Hi,

a Debian user found a bug in patch. I can confirm that it does crash
with the provided diff file here.

Please Cc: any replies to address@hidden - thanks.

Christoph
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Bug#372769: patch aborts with "pch.c:622: intuit_diff_type: Assertion `i0 != NONE' failed." Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:22:20 +0100

Package: patch
Version: 2.5.9-4
Severity: normal

The attached diff causes patch to abort when called with these options:

$ patch -R --dry-run -p2 >/dev/null <b0rk.diff
patch: pch.c:622: intuit_diff_type: Assertion `i0 != NONE' failed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages patch depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

patch recommends no packages.

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