Re: Wheezy backport of openafs
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Michael Howe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Wheezy-backports currently has openafs 1.6.9-1~bpo70+1. Given the
> recent security announcement about OpenAFS[0], would it be possible for
> 1.6.9-2+deb8u4 to be backported?
>
> CCing Ben as the current OpenAFS maintainer; Russ Allbery made the
> previous upload but since announced he is stepping down from Debian
> package maintenance for the OpenAFS packages.
>
> A simple rebuild of 1.6.9-2+deb8u4 in a wheezy environment seems to be
> all that is necessary (I have just done so and tested it on a wheezy
> fileserver where it works).
I believe that the rebuild should suffice, yes.
> Ben, if you would be able to do this, that would be great; otherwise, I
> am happy to upload to mentors.debian.net and seek a sponsor. Equally, I
> am happy to help keep the backport updated, as my team use it heavily at
> work.
It looks like I would need to open a ticket in RT to be added to the
backports ACL before I could upload. This week is pretty busy for me, so
it would probably be faster to find a DD sponsor to do this upload.
As a separate note, if a new backport is done for wheezy, it would be good
to confirm that the included openafs-modules-dkms will successfully build
a kernel module against the kernel in wheezy-backports (#775869).
Thanks for bringing it up,
Ben
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