Re: How to deal with wireshark CVE affecting Squeeze

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi Ben,

2015-04-12 1:38 GMT+02:00 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 01:05 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> [...]
>> I assume this situation is not unique to Wireshark. What do you think,
>> what would be the best for the LTS project in Wireshark's case and
>> what is the general LTS strategy in similar cases?
>
> I think the best approach would be either:
> a. remove it from support and upload wireshark 1.8 to squeeze-backports
>    if possible, or
> b. upload the backported wireshark 1.8 package to squeeze-lts
I would be happy to go either of those options. Undoing the multiarch-related
changes would make 1.8.x build fine on squeeze.
Who should make the call?

Cheers,
Balint