Re: Bug#373854: libtiff-tools: DSA 1091-1 broke tiffsplit
* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [060701 00:18]:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:35:17PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:24:23PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > * Christoph Biedl (cbiedl@gmx.de) [060630 15:21]:
> > > > It's now three weeks since advisory DSA 1901 that broke tiffsplit, 14
> > > > days since the initial report about that and ten days since confirmation
> > > > and patch by the maintainer. But there is no reaction of any kind by the
> > > > security team.
>
> > > > Can you please clarify your policy regarding regressions in security
> > > > updates? In my opinion a second update should be issued as soon as
> > > > possible.
>
> > > >From the stable release team's perspective, that is correct. Fixing
> > > libtiff is a precondition for the next stable pointrelease, sarge r3.
>
> > An upload was made by Steve Langasek on Jun 26 and should be released
> > soon.
>
> Seems to be a /different/ regression, the fix I uploaded was for
> libfreetype6 rather than for libtiff. :)
Ok, I uploaded the fix for this regression now. Christian, thanks for
finding, isolating the problem and providing an fix.
Cheers,
Andi
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