Re: upload prosody to stable-proposed-updates

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

[full quote for Luciano's benefit]

Hi,

On 2014-04-15 9:06, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> Hello, the prosody XMPP server recently received a security update,
> namely 0.8.2-4+deb7u1 for stable, 0.9.4-1 for testing.
>
> Since stable and testing have different versions the upstream had to
> produce a patch for the old 0.8.x branch, code that he is not anymore
> familiar with.
> While the patch he produced fixes the security bug it also introduces 
> an
> annoying bug related to compression that should afflict most XMPP
> clients.  See:
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743836
>
> Would you allow an upload of prosody to stable-proposed-updates with 
> the
> extra patch fixing this bug?  The patch been tested by (see the replies
> to #743836) and is available at:
>   https://hg.prosody.im/0.8/raw-rev/278489ee6e34

I queried this with a member of the security team on IRC, and the result 
of the discussion was that as the regression was introduced via a 
security update it will also be fixed via the security archive. I've 
CCed Luciano, who released the initial update.

Regards,

Adam