Re: dist stable update for #496412
On Sat, Oct 04 2008, Nico Golde wrote:
> * Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> [2008-10-04 16:39]:
>> On the other hand, back-porting the fix will probably be pretty
>> easy, though still a chore. Since this is an automatically generated
>> request, I'd like the input of a human before I undertake the task --
>> is this report, which was not deemed important enough to be called a
>> security risk, Worth the effort? Will we release Lenny before the next
>> point release?
>
> In my opinion yes. It's not that this is no security risk at
> all, of course it is a security risk, it is tracked as low
> in our security tracker. But the security team would be just
> overloaded if we would release a DSA for every single tmp
> race issue that was reported recently. I think back-porting
> the fix is not that much work and the users of dist will be
> thankful for that (even if there are only ~100).
Well, uploaded a package for stable. I must say it was hard to
resist adding the bug fixes that have happened since. I also no longer
use arch, so the new source is missing masses of .arch-ids directories
and, of course, {arch}.
thanks,
manoj
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