On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:12:02 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mardi, 25 décembre 2012 21.45:41, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 22:31:33 +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: > > > Please unblock package cups (…) > > > > Questions: > > Hi Julien, thanks for this review! > > > - what does "mv /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.conffile-bak" > > in preinst achieve? > > In versions prior to 1.5.3-2.7, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is a conffile, registered > as such by dpkg. So in a normal upgrading case, the file would either be > dropped (if never modified) or marked obsolete (if ever modified). As we want > neither, moving it away before the dpkg unpack (making this file unnoticed to > dpkg) and reinstating it after the unpack (in postinst for normal cases and > postrm "abort-upgrade" in case something fails) makes /etc/cups/cupsd.conf a > non-dpkg-conffile without having it marked as "obsolete" (which is irrelevant > for that file). > > Granted, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf should not be in /etc/ but in /var/lib/, but > that would be the subject for another intrusive patch (and upstream apparently > plans to do that change in a not-too-distant future). > > > - in cups-dbus-utf8.patch, I'm wondering if the "if (str_len > buflen)" > > check isn't off-by-one? > > To be honest, I don't really know. As I read the code (and the surrounding > comments), making it off-by-one puts the buffer size on the safe side (aka > always at least as large as the input string). > Well, it's at least as large as the input string, but potentially with no space for the terminating nul character, AIUI. > > Actually, one more: the validate_utf8 thing uses en_US.UTF-8, which may > > or may not exist. You might want to use C.UTF-8 instead, which is in > > our libc since 2.13. > > Good catch! I'll upload a new cups 1.5.3-2.11 with that fix. What is the good > way to Depend on libc > 2.13 across all our architectures ? > Depends: libc-bin (>= 2.13). Cheers, Julien
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