Re: dist stable update for #496412
Hi Manoj,
* Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org> [2008-10-07 13:07]:
> 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 a lot for your work! Release team, can you approve
the package?
Cheers
Nico
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