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Bug#787021: jessie-pu: package webkitgtk/2.4.8-2



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On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 22:49:47 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:

> webkitgtk 2.4.9 was released containing several bug fixes, including
> the one for CVE-2015-2330.
> 
> I contacted the Debian security team in order to make a security
> release with this fix. However, and since webkitgtk is in the
> limited-support set of packages it's very unlikely that the fix can be
> released through a DSA. They suggested to check if the
> proposed-updates mechanism would be suitable.
> 
> The 2.4 branch of webkit is a stable branch and there's no active
> development there. However it's still maintained and there are
> releases with important bugfixes periodically, so I think it's the
> kind of releases that would make sense in a stable distribution.
> 
> Should I upload webkitgtk 2.4.9 to wheezy-pu?
> 
> For reference here's the changelog of the latest release:
> 
Hi Alberto,

I'd be ok with this in principle, however we normally want to see a
source debdiff from a tested package for a final ack.

Thanks,
Julien

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