Bug#584015: ijsgutenprint: Security bugs in ghostscript
Dear Roger,
>>> Have you considered a whole-archive search for e.g. -dSAFER in
>>> the lintian lab? ...
>>
>> Sorry, do not know how to do that search. Can you explain?
>
> One of the Debian machines has the complete unpacked source trees for
> every package in Debian on it, used for running Lintian. You could
> simply run grep over the entire lot to identify all uses of -dSAFER in
> the tree with or without -P-.
>
> If you're not a Debian developer, you won't have access, but you could
> ask someone to run it for you and send you the results. I don't have
> time to do this myself for you right now, but I'm sure you could ask
> someone on -devel; if you don't have any luck I can possibly try at the
> weekend.
Thanks for the explanation, and the offer to help. I am not a developer.
Sorry I do not think I will have time to follow this up, now, to that
detail: am going on holidays, for four weeks starting this weekend, and
will not have computer access during that time.
If the issue is still outstanding in July then I will work on it again,
and may ask for your help then.
Cheers, Paul
Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
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