Re: Bug#844625: e2fsprogs: dumpe2fs segfaults in jessie
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 10:12:36 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 01:34:56PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:14:39AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >
> > > Why do you care? It's an extremely minor bug, and it's really not
> > > worth the effort to fix things for just a really minor bugfix like
> > > this.
> >
> > I care because it's an ugly bug that will be present for the whole
> > lifetime of jessie + jessie LTS if we do not fix it.
>
> +debian-release
>
> Could I get ruling from the debian release managers? The bug in
> question is that if someone runs "dumpe2fs" without any arguments, it
> will core dump. There are no security implications, and the bug was
> fixed in 1.42.13.
>
> I consider this an utterly trivial bug that is not worth fixing in a
> Debian point release. Santiango thinks this is was worth opening bug
> with a severity "important" --- but I don't believe it fits the
> definition of "important".
>
> Debian Release managers, could you please weigh in?
>
I'm happy to defer to your opinion as the maintainer, so feel free to
not fix this in jessie.
Cheers,
Julien
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