Bug#800664: jessie-pu: package wxmaxima/13.04.2-4+b1

[Gunter Königsmann <gunter@peterpall.de>]

Subject: jessie-pu: package wxmaxima/13.04.2-4+b1

Package: release.debian.org

User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org

Usertags: pu

Tags: jessie

Severity: normal

Dear all,

A few weeks ago I was informed about Bug#796954: wxmaxima segfaults when given some special characters.(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796954)

The problem is that if a parenthesis is entered in any of wxMaxima's many wizard dialogs this sends wxMaxima into an infinitive recursion loop that crashes as soon as all of the stack is used up.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752528#40 now proposes a 4-line-bugfix and since I tested it on my system - (it seems to work at least for me) and the bug is very easy to trigger I would like to ask if the corrected version can be added to jessie-proposed-updates.

devref 5.5.1 tells me that the first step to do so is to ask you.

The second step would be to build a package that can be uploaded (I already have the package with the patch ready), so if you tell me i can do so I will upload it to debian mentors.

And I do have a practical question: The current package has the version number 13.04.2-4+b1. If I upload my new version it will be 13.04.2-4u1. Is this correct?

Thanks a lot,

and kind regards,

 Gunter.

-- System Information:

Debian Release: jessie/sid

  APT prefers wily

  APT policy: (500, 'wily')

Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-040200rc8-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)

Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)