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Re: Please consider loop-aes-utils 2.12p-4 for sarge



Hi Max,

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:54:34AM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote:

> I just noticed that util-linux 2.12p-4 is now in testing - somewhat
> unexpectedly for me, since the last discussion on -release seemed to
> conclude that updating it was out of question.

> loop-aes-utils 2.12p-4 has been held out of testing as it depends
> on versions of mount (>=2.12p-1) that use libblkid, which I added in
> order to keep both packages synced for sarge.

> The difference now in upstream versions between util-linux and
> loop-aes-utils is suboptimal for a number of reasons:

> - Bugs fixed in mount between 2.12a and 2.12p resurface if users
>   install loop-aes-utils 2.12a-3

> - Security updates are probably complicated by having two different
>   upstream versions of setuid /bin/mount.

> - Translations from util-linux-locales 2.12p may not apply to the
>   code from 2.12a.

> loop-aes-utils 2.12p-4 is the same as the mount parts of util-linux 
> 2.12p-4, modulo the loop-AES patch. It should be identical to it in
> terms of non-crypto bugs and features. 

> The current version has been in unstable for 47 days with no bugs
> reported against it, and for above reasons, I would like to ask you
> to make a freeze exception for this package.

Yes, given that this was only blocked by util-linux before, I'm going to go
ahead and push it in.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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