Bug#782596: RFC: possible wheezy-pu: package debhelper to address #708218 for wheezy?

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Niels,

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:09:02PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2015-04-14 17:47, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi Stable release managers,
> > 
> > This is not a wheezy-pu request per se. The recent libxrender update
> > through security.d.o was initially just a rebuild of libxrender
> > against a fixed version of libx11. This caused #782505 ("libxrender1:
> > dist-upgrade breaks on multiarch due to conflict on
> > changelog.Debian.gz").
> > 
> > The fix for debhelper in #708218 didn't make it into wheezy so binNMUs
> > in wheezy for multiarch enabled packages will have the problem.
> > 
> > Would it make sense to have an update of debhelper in wheezy fixing
> > this issue as well?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Salvatore
> > 
> > 
> 
> >From a debhelper PoV, it looks reasonable at first glance.
> 
> It looks like we would need to backport the 4 commits listed in the
> attached "...-commits.diff" file.  The combined result (excluding
> changelog entries) is in the "...-dh_installchangelogs.diff" and had no
> merge conflicts (only one chunk required fuzziness to be applied).
> 
> Except a missing changelog entry, is the expected debdiff for such an
> upload.  Disclaimer, not tested (not even build tested).

Any comments from SRM on this? Specifically we still need to binNMU
some reverse dependencies of libx11 for the security update in
DSA-3224-1[1].

 [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7439

Regards,
Salvatore