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Re: Security concerns with Stardict in Debian stable releases



Hi,

在 2025/10/18 06:35, Aaron Rainbolt 写道:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:27:09 +0100
> Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 14:27:32 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>>> The Debian Policy manual states in section 2.2.1:
>>>  
>>>> In addition, the packages in main
>>>> ...
>>>> * must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them...  
>>>
>>> I would argue Stardict is this buggy.  
>>
>> If that's the case, the first place to report it would be a RC bug 
>> against the stardict package (and if the stardict maintainer
>> downgrades the severity of RC bugs in a way that is contrary to
>> project consensus, the group that can overrule them is the release
>> team or the technical committee).
> 
> This has already happened. See
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1110370, which was
> filed with severity "critical" and tag "security", and which the
> maintainer changed to severity "wishlist" and removed the "security"
> tag from. The maintainer later upgraded the severity to "Important",
> but still did not leave it release-critical, thus why the vulnerability
> still exists in Trixie.

About fix this vulnerability in Trixie, Please see:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1113750

The Debian Release Team will review it before next stable point release.


Regards,

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