Bug#736168: pu: package samhain/2.8.3a-1
Control: tags -1 -moreinfo +confirmed
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 22:14 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 08:57:48PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 18:06 +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > > I have recently updated Samhain in sid and have fixed some important bugs. As
> > > requested by DSA, since samhain is used in many project machines, I would like
> > > to make an upload to the wheezy release including some of these fixes.
> >
> > Not that it's a blocker, but do you know if they're planning on testing
> > the package once it's uploaded, before the point release?
>
> I'd say yes.
>
> DSA is actually willing test them right now, I've decided to approach you
> instead of manually building the test packages myself.
Great.
> > Is samhainrc generally customised by users? More specifically, is this
> > likely to lead to conffile prompts for a majority of users on upgrade?
>
> Some users might have changed the conffile to use the configuration above but
> I cannot be certain. There might be conffile prompts for users but I think
> the majority just runs with the standard configuration.
>
> The benefit of the above is that the "standard" configuration will work for
> everybody out of the box.
Okay, thanks; I think I'm convinced. :-)
[...]
> > I'm assuming these are cruft and thus intentionally removed from the
> > package, but it would have been helpful to mention that (and preferably
> > changelog it).
>
> Yes, this is cruft. I will add to the changelog.
Thanks. Please feel free to go ahead with the upload.
Regards,
Adam
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