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Bug#1039994: bullseye-pu: package logrotate/3.18.0-2+deb11u2



Control: tag -1 confirmed

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 08:22:02PM +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote:
> The previous upload (3.18.0-2+deb11u1) cherry picked several commits
> around the state file handling of logrotate.
> In particular debian/patches/applied-upstream/Do-not-lock-state-file-dev-null.patch
> added the following wording to the man page:
> 
>     If /dev/null is given as the state file, then logrotate will not
> try to lock or write the state file.
> 
> In the current bullseye version this is only true for locking but nor
> for writing since the related commit was not included.
> Thus the usage of /dev/null as the state file can lead to /dev/null
> being replaced by a regular file.
> See #1039868 as an example.

Please go ahead.

Thanks,

-- 
Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw@debian.org
Debian Developer                         http://people.debian.org/~jmw

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