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Re: squeeze update of mercurial?



Hi Guido,

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 07:06:05PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:16:38PM +0100, Javi Merino wrote:
> > [Dropping python-apps-team]
> > 
> > Hi debian-lts,
> > 
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:15:38PM +0900, Javi Merino wrote:
> > > Hi Raphael,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:42:23PM +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 mercurial:
> > > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9462
> > > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9390 (optional, is
> > > > tagged no-dsa)
> > > > 
> > > > Would you like to take care of this yourself? We are still understaffed so
> > > > any help is always highly appreciated.
> > > 
> > > If you are understaffed I'm happy to help preparing the update.  I'll
> > > hopefully have time to do it tomorrow, I'll claim the DLA when I start
> > > working on it.
> > 
> > I've prepared a package for squeeze lts that fixes CVE-2014-9462 and
> > CVE-2014-9390.  Find attached the debdiff.
> > 
> > I've run the testsuite in a squeeze chroot and it passes, but I'm not
> > entirely sure that a) I haven't broken anything and b) my backport of
> > the security fix is valid -- the code has changed a lot between
> > mercurial 1.6.4 and 3.2.3.  I'd appreciate if somebody did some more
> > testing.  The packages can be found in:
> > 
> > https://people.debian.org/~vicho/mercurial_squeeze/
> 
> I'm happy to test this since I already had a look at the CVEs. But I
> won't get around to it before Friday. I'll just check if the DLA is out
> until then and if now will do the testing and report back.

No problem, I'll hold the upload until the weekend.  Thanks!
Javi

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