Re: Lintian release soon?
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> writes:
> It's been a while since the last release, and mainly thanks to the great
> work by Russ Allbery, we've got a >80-line changelog entry atm and a
> mere 18 bugs fixed. I've rolled and installed the current svn (which now
> passes its own testsuite again), and would like to see an upload happen
> sometime in the near future. Widespread testing will only seriously
> happen anyway after upload to unstable, but a bit of testing by people
> on this list would be neat.
> So, please stresstest current svn a bit, and in case there's no serious
> problems found, we should upload the package. We can't fix all bugs at
> once after all.
> Russ, feel free to change the first line in the changelog entry if it
> bothers you, I'm feeling low on entropy^Winspiration a.t.m. to write
> something seriously witty.
Sounds fine to me. :)
The only additional thing that I think would be cool to get into this
release is the patch attached to the bug log for Bug#344269. Most of that
patch is just adding test cases for a bunch of weird "rexec under Perl"
conventions that have been seen in the wild and a fairly uncontroversial
change to catch the rest of these in the script_is_evil_and_wrong check.
The only controversial part is that the patch also bypasses the check for
#! or ELF magic if the script passes script_is_evil_and_wrong, which is
required for one of the magic entry points that Frank discovered and which
apparently doesn't work if you put #!/bin/sh in front of it. It only
works if the binary has no magic and therefore forces the kernel /bin/sh
fallback. I'm not sure if we want to pass in lintian scripts that require
that, although I believe it does work everywhere (although I'm not
positive about the Hurd).
I have an idea on how to solve Bug#344266 in a more thorough fashion, but
that can wait for the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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