Bug#776748: (pre-approval) unblock: libxml2/2.9.1+dfsg1-5 (via t-p-u)
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 16:24 +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock jessie-pu
The -pu tags are for stable updates, rather than tpu.
> libxml2 in Jessie has CVE-2014-3600 pending to be addressed and this
> update includes the related regression fix as well.
>
> Also, I would like to apply some more upstream memory related patches
> from 2.9.2, mostly NULL checks, because there are quite a lot deeper
> issues hiding in libxml2's code base and those fixes shall be deemed
> beneficial to our support cycle.
The changes to patches that haven't materially changed are quite noisy,
given the amount of actual changes.
+libxml2 (2.9.1+dfsg1-5) testing; urgency=medium
+
+ * Add pkg-config to B-D
+ * Use -O3 for normal builds
Could you expand on the rationale for introducing those now?
Particularly as neither appears to be mentioned in the changelogs for
the uploads to unstable.
Regards,
Adam
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