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Bug#929011: unblock: singularity-container/3.1.1+ds-1



Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Severity: normal

Please unblock package singularity-container/3.1.1+ds-1

This package is prone to security vulnerabilities. Upstream provides
long-term support for selected versions to their paid users, but also
releases all code changes (including backported security patches) to the
community.

Both 3.0.x and 3.1.x were released earlier this year and it was not
known at the time which of these would be the LTS version. 3.0.3 is what
I bet on and what is in Testing now, but it now turns out that I was
wrong and it's actually 3.1. Using it would greatly facilitate our
ability to provide support over the lifetime of Buster.

The benefits of doing this have also just been clearly demonstrated:
Upstream just released 3.2.0, adding new features as well as fixing
security issues affecting versions 3.1.0 and up, but because 3.1 is
under LTS support for their paid users, they also provided the security
patches backported to 3.1 (see the 3.2.0 release notes -
https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/releases/tag/v3.2.0 ).

So I apologize for the large diff, but I think we'd be in much better
shape having this upstream version in Buster. Especially because of the
large diff, backporting patches to 3.0 without the help from upstream
that we'd get by using 3.1 would be unnecessarily more burdensome.

many thanks for your time and consideration

regards
Afif

-- 
Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي
https://afif.ghraoui.name

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