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Re: libosip2 and libosip2-3



Yasuhiro,

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:25:41AM +0900, ARAKI Yasuhiro wrote:
> 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, the conclusion of my previous message was that, even though I don't
like the situation, libosip2 2.2.0 and siproxd have both been accepted into
sarge.  The new versions have already reached testing.

> > 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.

You didn't cause the RC bug in siproxd; that was the responsibility of the
siproxd maintainer.

But it does show that it's important for maintainers of related packages to
communicate.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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