Re: Your dnsmasq upload to stable

[Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>]

On 27/06/18 22:50, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 22:45 +0100, Simon Kelley wrote:
>>
>> On 27/06/18 22:31, Simon Kelley wrote:
> [...]
>>> The bug was reopened for stable and oldstable a couple of days ago
>>> and
>>> marked critical because a new version of dns-root-data has made the
>>> same
>>> format change in those distros.
> 
> As I've since commented in that bug, this is incorrect. There was no
> change to the dns-root-data package in stable since October.
> 
> I also don't understand what rationale is being used to justify the
> severity of the bug.
> 
>>> Looking at stable packages, this update may have happened:
>>> 2017072601~deb8u2 has the broken format, but 2017072601~deb9u1
>>> corrects it.
> [...]
>>> This was also reported in a new bug, 902341, which explicitly
>> references
>> dns-root-data version 2017072601~deb8u2 in jessie
> 
> 2017072601~deb9u1 is the current version of dns-root-data in stretch,
> and has been since the 9.2 point release nearly 9 months ago.
> 
> As for jessie, it is no longer managed by the Release Team, so if you
> wish to update dnsmasq there you'll need to talk to the LTS team.
> 
> Based on the above, is there any actual requirement for the dnsmasq
> update in stretch?
> 

None. Apologies for the noise.


Simon.