Re: Thunderbird 52.9.0 for LTS?
Hello Emilio, hi Moritz,
Am 08.07.2018 um 12:01 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> On 07/07/18 11:44, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
>> Hello Emilio and Security-Team,
>>
>> while preparing the stretch-security package for Thunderbird upstream
>> has announced just right now via the private driver mailing list to stop
>> the current automatic updates for 52.9.0 due a critical issue [1] that
>> can bring in some data loss while working with attachments. So I decided
>> to open a bug [2] with severity grave against the version of thunderbird
>> in unstable to prevent the migration to testing for now.
>>
>> But this means also we shouldn't deliver version 52.9.0 in any -security
>> release for now. So I will not upload my prepared packages for
>> stretch-security as I think Mozilla will provide a fix for the new issue
>> within the next days. Or there are other objections?
>
> Yes, let's postpone this until there is a fix. We don't want to introduce a data
> corruption bug in a security update.
looks like Mozilla got this handled gladly really quick.
I uploaded 52.9.1 to unstable on Tuesday and will start to prepare
updated packages for stretch-security later this afternoon.
Moritz, still o.k. I'm uploading the update once I'm ready? I expect to
got this finished today too as it's mostly just a merge with a rebuild
for stretch and the previous packages 52.9.0 already have been working
on my stretch machine.
--
Regards
Carsten Schoenert
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