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Re: Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts



On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:58:04AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:

> >>I've just uploaded ipsec-tools_0.5.2-1_i386.deb and 
> >>racoon_0.5.2-1_i386.deb
> >>(source package ipsec-tools-0.5.2) to unstable. The version in testing is
> >>0.5.1-1. Even though upstream version has changed, this is a purely bug 
> >>fix
> >>release and has some important fixes that should get into sarge.

> >>I have been pushing upstream for this release for a few days and the 
> >>release
> >>was made just today. Do I also need to upload to testing-proposed-updates 
> >>or
> >>will the unstable version be pushed automatically?

> >Please read the guidelines provided in the freeze announcement about what
> >updates are being accepted during the freeze, and wehat information the
> >release team needs to be able to approve a request.

> Sorry, I missed the changelog and bug numbers information about the 
> uploads. The following are the changelog from the version in sarge:

> ========
> ipsec-tools (1:0.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=high

>   * New upstream release. This release fixes ph2handle unlink bug
>     (closes: #307233).
>   * Urgency high because of fix for security problem with single DES.
>   * Applied patch from Richard Lucassen to pass options to racoon via
>     /etc/default/racoon file.

>  -- Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@debian.org>  Wed,  4 May 2005 13:46:45 +0530

> ipsec-tools (1:0.5.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

>   * Disabled readline support because it introduces a bug in setkey and
>     confuses a lot of people (closes: #303573).
>   * Added Build-Conflicts for bison++ (closes: #305974).

>  -- Ganesan Rajagopal <rganesan@debian.org>  Mon,  2 May 2005 10:18:04 +0530
> ========

> Even though the single DES fix is security sensitive, nobody in their 
> right mind should be using single DES any way. So the real critical 
> issues are the fixes for Bug#307233 and Bug#303573. I believe these 
> fixes warrant pushing ipsec-tools-0.5.2 into sarge. The package is 
> priority extra. Thanks.

Approved because the upstream diff was relatively short, but it was still
far longer than it needed to be to fix the bugs cited.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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