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Re: gnupg RC bugs



On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 04:12:05PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> * Brian M. Carlson wrote:
> > The version in sarge[0] is vulnerable to a bug about data loss
> > because of data encrypted to the wrong key (299814) and a security
> > bug about using gnupg as an oracle in automated environments
> > (300859). The latter bug affects sid too.

> Looks like James is no longer interested in maintaining gnupg. He
> doesn't respond to bugreports, and he also didn't respond to mails
> from the release managers where they asked him if a newer version of
> gnupg should get pushed into sarge.

> So, how to proceed?

It's a package with release-critical bugs; if the maintainer isn't able to
take care of fixing them, an NMU is needed.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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