Bug#926118: Alternative for Re: Bug#926118: unblock: libmspack/0.10.1-1
Duck,
On 2019-06-04 03:53, Paul Gevers wrote:
About this alternative version here:
Thanks Jens for your help. Comments later on.
We prefer this route.
I provided, as well as other maintainers, maximum information to give
the release team proper materials to get to a decision.
I'd like to have your rationale on this preferred route please.
Currently if feels like no deep analysis was done.
I assume a fix for #914794 (libmspack fails tests on big endian
architectures (s390x, mips)), reported against 0.9.1-1 is not
necessary.
However if that was caused by a change in the toolchain instead of
changes in the package, I'll also add that fix here.
This is what caused this situation in the first place, so unless the
release team decides to drop mips and other big endian architectures,
this is a no go.
I did not test the build on these architectures myself with 0.8 but I'm
basing this on upstream's comment that nothing had changed in this area.
Once again it feels the release team did not take time to check on this
case.
Please align. I'll unblock the targeted fix you propose above. Seeing
the progress on the current package, I don't think you should expect
the
current version to be unblocked before buster.
I don't understand what progress you're expecting here. We were all
waiting for the release team's decision, or a proposal of what would be
an acceptable upload.
Currently the current version has been sitting in unstable for three
months without any single bug reported, this feels like a good progress
towards saying this version is safe.
You can remove the moreinfo tag when the +really package is ready to be
unblocked.
I'm not committing to this plan for the above stated reasons. I also
feels uncomfortable uploading with a know security problem, so unless
upstream or our security team says it's low risk, I'm not taking such
responsibility.
I have to say that in the last few years the relationship with the
release team has been of much better quality, more collaboration to find
a solutions together than the BOFH style that was when I first joined.
Here it looks like our arguments are just discarded out of fear, not by
rational analysis. So I feel quite disappointed by how this BR (and
#923885) have been handled so far.
\_o<
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Marc Dequènes
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