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Re: squeeze update of subversion?



On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 09:45:55PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:12:36PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Hello dear maintainer(s),
> > 
> > the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are
> > currently open in the Squeeze version of subversion:
> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0248
> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0251
> > (there are other lower severity issues affecting squeeze that could be
> > fixed too:
> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/subversion )
> > 
> > Would you like to take care of this yourself? We are still understaffed so
> > any help is always highly appreciated.
> > 
> > If yes, please follow the workflow we have defined here:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
> 
> I started looking at what was needed to adapt the upstream patches for a
> Wheezy upload and it wasn't straight forward enough for me to finish at
> the time.  However, the changes should be similar for Squeeze and Wheezy
> since they're both in the 1.6 series, so finishing the Wheezy-targeted
> changes should be easily applicable to Squeeze.

wheezy-security upload happened today and, as expected, the patches
apply pretty cleanly to the Squeeze version.  I synced all the relevant
CVE fixes from the wheezy package back to the squeeze package.

I'm still going through build and test, but I should have something
ready in the next day or two.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>

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