On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 01:03:35PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 23:30 +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > > Hello dear Debian NVIDIA Maintainers, > > > > the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are > > currently open in the Squeeze version of libvdpau: > > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libvdpau > > > > 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. > > Dear Santiago and dear LTS team, > Hi Luca, > I have backported the patch to squeeze. The debdiff is attached for > review. > > As I mentioned in the bug thread opened by the Security Team [1], I have > only verified that it builds (amd64 and i386 chroots), but I am not able > to test it due to the need for hardware capable of running with squeeze > very old drivers, which I do not possess. > Unfortunately, I don't have any Nvidia hardware either. > I have however verified that the wheezy version works, and given that > it's the same upstream release (4.1) I am reasonably confident that it > should be fine. > > In the aforementioned thread [1] I have asked the Security Team whether > this upload should go through security.debian.org or through the updates > process instead, so I will wait for an answer before I start on the LTS > workflow you mentioned. > > Thank you! Thanks for your work, Luca! Don't hesitate to ask if you have any doubt about the LTS workflow. Cheers, Santiago
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