Re: Bug#840691: ghostscript and evince/libspectre problem
- To: Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org>
- Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>, 840691@bugs.debian.org, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>, debian-lts@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#840691: ghostscript and evince/libspectre problem
- From: Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:54:39 -0400
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20161028005439.GA28024@miami.connexer.com>
- Mail-followup-to: Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org>, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>, 840691@bugs.debian.org, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>, debian-lts@lists.debian.org
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:43:01PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:17:20 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>
> [...]
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:50:02AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > > Is your plan to release this as a -2 regression update to the previous
> > > DSA? I assume that is what you plan to do, but I wanted to confirm to
> > > be certain.
> >
> > Yes exactly, that's the plan. I would still like to hear Francesco's
> > feedback before proceeding with a regression update.
>
> I would love to help, but, as I said, I am unfortunately swamped:
> I cannot promise any fast feedback for the time being.
> Maybe I'll find some time for a test during the week-end, but this is
> not a promise! :-(
>
I have built wheezy packages with the patch and tested. The PS file I
used (from the MIT site in the original report) now renders correctly
in evince and zathura without fault.
This certainly seems to address the regression. I am ready to make an
upload to wheezy whenever the upload to jessie is ready.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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