Bug#981096: buster-pu: package file/1:5.35-4+deb10u1
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:21 AM Christoph Biedl wrote:
> Problem: The old limit turned out to be too strict, and instead of
> avoiding DoS this broke legitimate use of that feature. Also, Paul
> Wise (Cc:'ed), asked me repeatedly to backport this to buster, I
> trust he has good reason to to so.
The reason is that we hit the limit at $work and so have been manually
maintaining a rebuild with the patch for a while, which breaks things
briefly after security updates in oldstable/stable, so having the
patch in Debian would be helpful. We are using the Perl bindings so we
couldn't use the command-line option to override the limit and the
Perl bindings didn't have support for overriding the limit. We got
file upstream to increase the default limit, got Christoph to backport
the limit to bullseye and got the Perl bindings upstream to add
support for overriding the limit.
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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