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Re: libosip2 and libosip2-3



Thanks Steve,

In conclusion, we should ship libosip2 2.0.6 with sarge.
And I will fix for 2.0.6. It includes a potential security risk.
It is same as #305729.

> Well, this tells me that we should not ship libosip2 2.0.6 with sarge,
> whether or not we decide to allow 2.2.0 in.


>   - libosip2-3 was accepted into unstable on March 19
>   - even though siproxd, its *one* reverse-dependency in testing, was
>     uploaded on March 23, it remained RC-buggy until April 24, when I
>     sponsored an upload on behalf of the maintainer (after pestering him on
>     IRC)
>   - by which point, a new upstream version of libosip2 had been uploaded,
>     blocking the progression of the fixed siproxd into testing;
>   - and three days later, libosip2 was uploaded again, with the only change
>     being to change the maintainer field, ensuring that neither package
>     would get in before we froze!
Sorry. I caused these problems.

>   - and all the while, there is apparently no releasable version of siproxd
>     in testing, according to bug #304691 which reports that both the
>     unstable and testing versions segfault, which apparently no one bothered
>     to report even though the package that was in testing at the time was
>     seven months old!

Sorry. I don't understand status of siproxd.

> So I am not very sympathetic to requests that either of these packages be
> given freeze exceptions, and I'm also not confident that either package is
> being maintained very well right now.

I understand.

--
ARAKI Yasuhiro 
A Debian Official Developer <ar@debian.org>
 



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