Re: Wheezy update of dietlibc?
On 07/23/2016 10:10 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:04:53AM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
>>> Well, then it would be great if someone could upload the fixed
>>> package for me. :)
>>
>> I've uploaded the wheezy version to security-master.
>>
>> However, whilst I reserved a DLA I have not announced it due to the
>> required binNMUs - it would be pointless, misleading and/or dangerous
>> as dietlibc is a static library.
>>
>> I need some help here - do I simply request these in the usual way?
>> I have not done this for security before.
>
> If the source for the respective binary packages you want to binNMU is
> not in the security-archive you need to to a sourceful upload without
> changes (but wait first that the dietlibc version has been built) and
> avialable. I guess that is for almost all the cases you need to do,
> since they are if I understood correctly just 'minit' and 'mksh',
> neither of those two are on security.d.o, so you need to do a
> sourcefull upload.
Please note that the version of minit in Wheezy and Jessie is the same.
I have also asked the release team to schedule a binNMU in Jessie once
the upload to Jessie is done, and to avoid problems, have asked them
to use at least +b2 in Jessie to avoid problems. But in doubt, please
coordinate with the release team in this regard.
https://bugs.debian.org/832171
Regards,
Christian
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