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Re: squeeze update of wordpress?



Hi,

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Guido Günther wrote:
> > I suspect that Craig will suggest tracking the version in Wheezy for
> > simplicity's sake, as the internal changes since 3.6 may be too much to
> > easily backport security updates for.
> 
> Yeah, there are several other CVEs affecting wordpress (also in squeeze)
> currently. I see two possible solutions: marking wordpress as
> end-of-life or piggy backing on another version since backporting will
> become really time consuming. In contrast to other things like openssl,
> ruby, nss this is rather a leave package that has little
> potential of breaking other things we ship.

Definitely, we have imported newer upstream releases multiple times in the
past to fix security issues and we can/should continue doing this (I was a
former maintainer of the package).

I would suggest backporting the package that Craig has been uploading
to newer releases.

Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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