Bug#982002: buster-pu: package openafs/1.8.2-1
Hi Adam,
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 02:40:02PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 09:17 -0800, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 05:11:31PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > Control: tags -1 + confirmed
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 08:38 -0800, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > > > All upstream openafs releases from the 1.8.x series, prior to
> > > > 1.8.7,
> > > > contain a "time bomb" bug that activates when the unix epoch time
> > > > passes 0x60000000 (Thu 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 AM UTC).
> [...]
> > > Please feel free to upload, and we can look at processing the
> > > package
> > > after the point release is out of the way. I assume you'd
> > > appreciate a
> > > stable-updates release for the updated package, rather than waiting
> > > for
> > > the following point release?
> >
> > Yes, that would be appreciated.
>
> How does this sound as text for an announcement?
>
> ===================
> OpenAFS is an implementation of the Andrew File System, a distributed
> filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple
> computers.
>
> An issue was discovered in the connection handling code which would
> lead to most connections between clients and servers failing, starting
> from January 14th, 2021 (when the UNIX timestamp reached 0x60000000).
> This update resolves that issue.
>
> If you use OpenAFS, we strongly recommend that you install this
> update.
> ===================
That should work well. Anything I might try to change in order to be more
precise would just add unnecessary detail, and this conveys the important
point.
Thanks again for your help with this,
Ben
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