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Re: squeeze update of binutils?



On 08/19/2015 11:28 PM, ben@decadent.org.uk 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 binutils:
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/binutils
> 
> 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
> 
> If that workflow is a burden to you, feel free to just prepare an
> updated source package and send it to debian-lts@lists.debian.org
> (via a debdiff, or with an URL pointing to the the source package,
> or even with a pointer to your packaging repository), and the members
> of the LTS team will take care of the rest. Indicate clearly whether you
> have tested the updated package or not.
> 
> If you don't want to take care of this update, it's not a problem, we
> will do our best with your package. Just let us know whether you would
> like to review and/or test the updated package before it gets released.
> 
> Thank you very much.

If possible, I'd like to get not involved with this. I looked at some uploads
for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and identified some backports and patches which might be of
interest.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.20.1-3ubuntu7.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.20.1-3ubuntu7
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.20.1-3ubuntu6

Matthias


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