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liblas package

Add missing return value in liblas.hpp

Bug #1850358 reported by Maris Nartiss on 2019-10-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	liblas (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Missing return statement in include/liblas/liblas.hpp causes calls to Open to always fail if liblas is compiled without Boost. As liblas src/c_api.cpp does not handle Open failures (returning NULL instead of throwing an exception), it causes a segfault in any application calling LASReader_Create or LASReader_CreateWithHeader.

The issue has been resolved upstream[1], but any new releases incorporating this patch seem to be unlikely[2].

1. https://github.com/libLAS/libLAS/pull/168
2. https://github.com/libLAS/libLAS/issues/146

Gentoo bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/698846