Bug#773319: pre-approval: unblock: sudo/1.8.10p3-1.1; possibly sudo/1.8.11p2-1.1?

[Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>]

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On 2015-01-14 21:58, Ivo De Decker wrote:
>> <simple>
>> Based on a patch provided by upstream, I created a debdiff (attached)
>> for 1.8.10p3 in testing with the following changelog entry:
>>
>>      * Backport upstream's fix for host specifications using a FQDN.
>>        These were no longer working since 1.8.8. Closes: #731583
>>
>> Considering that the severity of #731583 is serious, I assume an upload
>> to t-p-u should be OK?
>> </simple>
> 
> I'm reluctant to allow this, as this essentially means dumping this new
> version into jessie untested.

This fix already entered unstable in the meantime, with NMU 1.8.11p2-1.1
(which was an NMU against 1.8.11p2-1 with just this one fix added). So
it received about three weeks of general testing without new bug reports.

Personally, I've been using 1.8.10p3-1.1 (as per my original debdiff) on
all my Jessie systems since it was first proposed, and can report that
it works as intended.

> I would prefer if it was just uploaded to unstable (reverting the new
> upstream version there), to allow it to be tested there, and migrate
> to jessie that way. If there is a good reason why this isn't possible
> (if it introduces other issues in unstable by doing this), please
> explain why and I'll consider allowing a t-p-u upload.

Would you consider the new information above satisfactory WRT sufficient
testing, so that perhaps the unstable shuffling could be avoided?

Regards,
Christian