Note about a Vala bug when chaining constructors which affects us

diff --git a/backends/telepathy/tpf-persona.vala b/backends/telepathy/tpf-persona.vala
index 5d994db..9f82e52 100644 (file)
--- a/backends/telepathy/tpf-persona.vala
+++ b/backends/telepathy/tpf-persona.vala
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ public class Tpf.Persona : Folks.Persona, Alias, Avatar, Folks.Capabilities,
 
   public Persona (Contact contact, PersonaStore store) throws Tp.Error
     {
+      /* FIXME: There is the possibility of a crash in the error condition below
+       * due to bgo#604299, where the C self variable isn't initialised until we
+       * chain up to the Object constructor, below. */
       var uid = contact.get_identifier ();
       if (uid == null || uid == "")
         throw new Tp.Error.INVALID_ARGUMENT ("contact has an invalid UID");