Bug#771431: (preapproval) unblock: ruby2.1/2.1.5-1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed

On 2014-11-29 15:48, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I intend to upload a new upstream version of ruby2.1 with the attached
> debdiff to unstable.
> 
> It contains fixes for 2 bugs:
> 
>   - Fixes CVE-2014-8090 Another Denial of Service XML Expansion
>     (Closes: #770932)
>   - Fixes build on SPARC (Closes: #769731)
> 
> Even though it's a new upstream release:
> 
> - the changes are minimal and are restricted to the above bugs, plus
>   minimal build system changes and portability fixes.
> - a large part of the debdiff is changelog entries, a version bump, and
>   test suite additions.
> - having this version in jessie will ease the stable maintainance effort
>   by deviating as little as possible from upstream.
> 
> Please let me know if you agree with me uploading this.
> 
> unblock ruby2.1/2.1.5-1
> 
> [...]

Approved provided that the changes are uploaded to unstable before the
5th of December.  Please remove the "moreinfo" once it has been accepted
into unstable.

~Niels