Bug#851397: jessie-pu: package sendmail/8.14.4-8+deb8u2

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

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On Sat, 2017-01-14 at 16:22 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> sendmail (8.14.4-8+deb8u2) jessie-pu; urgency=medium
> 
>   * QA upload.
> 
> Disclaimer: I last ran sendmail about 15 years ago on Solaris 8.
> 
>   * Only touch files as smmsp:smmsp in /var/run/sendmail/stampdir (writable by
>     group smmsp) to avoid possible privilege escalation.  (Closes: #841257)
>   * Use lockfile-create (from lockfile-progs) instead of touch to manage the
>     cronjob lockfiles.
> 
> This fix has been in unstable for some time (and without regression
> reports for its second iteration), but I don't know anyone who could
> test this in jessie properly.
> Anyway, I'll ping all people involved in the relevant bug reports
> to see whether they can test it once it reached jessie-pu.
> 
>   * sendmail-base: Add Depends: netbase for /etc/services.
> 
> Backported from sid, sendmail is noisy if /etc/services is missing
> (and maybe not working). No known bug report, probably since
> it is unlikely to install a production server without netbase.

Please go ahead.

Regards,

Adam