Bug#703193: unblock: smokeping/2.6.9-1
Hi Antoine,
(disclaimer: I'm not part of the release team, just trying to help
a bit.)
Antoine Beaupré wrote (16 Mar 2013 16:35:06 GMT) :
> This is a tentative request to see if it would be possible to unblock
> the new upstream version 2.6.9 in wheezy. It fixes many issues, as
> detailed in the upstream changelog, along with the release critical
> issue #659899 (security CVE-2011-0790).
At this stage of the freeze, I think an upload with only targetted
fixes for the most serious bugs would ensure the security issue is
fixed, and fixed ASAP without potentially long round-trip delays.
> Most of this are bugfixes, the only new feature I can see is the
> "SendEmail" probe.
I had a very quick initial look, and there's a bit more non-critical
changes that IMHO are not worth the review time needed to further
consider this unblock request (nor the risk of regressions) at this
stage of the freeze:
* "add expect parameter to Curl.pm" looks like a new feature.
* The probes/FPing.pm change seems useless for Wheezy that has fping
3.2, but well, who knows if someone will upload something newer in
wheezy-backports..
* "Template support for HTTP auth user" looks like a feature, too
* At very fast first glance, HASH and HOSTNAME looks like new
templating features, but I may be entirely wrong
* The exec CGI changes may be a bugfix for some situations, but the
fix is a bit involved at this stage of the freeze; was any issue
related to this change ever reported to Debian? Or any pointer to
the upstream bug report / explanation how important this is?
Cheers,
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