On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:07:11PM +0000, Jan Dittberner wrote: > Hello release team, hello mentors, > > the Ubuntu folks discovered a bug [1] in cracklib-runtime that turned > out to be caused by a bashism in its update-cracklib script. Steve > Langasek fixed the issue in the Ubuntu package and forwarded me a link > to the debdiff [2]. > > Unfortunately a new upstream version of cracklib2 has been created and > was uploaded to unstable recently, so I cannot simply go the way > through unstable. I don't want to introduce the new upstream release > in Lenny at this late point of the release cycle and you surely do not > want it too. > > I prepared an upload to testing-proposed-updates that includes only > the fix for the bug mentioned above and the fix for the > cracklib-runtime's postinst "maintainer-script-ignores-error" fix that > I made in 2.8.13-1. I'm no DD so I need a sponsor to upload the > package. I put the package on mentors.debian.net [3]. The debdiff is > attached to this mail. > > Will the package reach Lenny this way? If not, could anybody please > unblock it when it's uploaded? > > > Regards > Jan Dittberner > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278743 > [2] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18591357/cracklib2-278743.debdiff > [3] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cracklib2/cracklib2_2.8.12-8lenny1.dsc I'll sponsor and unblock it. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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