Re: Proposed RC fix for acct
Hi Charles, Sven and Team,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 09:15:48AM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 09:36:05AM -0300, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 08:11:40AM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
[...]
> > > I would be happy to try to make another contribution to mop up other
> > > bugs and issues found by lintian in acct after the trixie release if I
> > > get a chance.
> >
> > That's awesome! If you want to start working already, we can prepare an
> > upload to experimental with your fixes and after the trixie release we
> > can send to unstable (I'm not sure how familiar you are with Debian
> > development lifecycle, but now we are in the freeze [1] to release the
> > new stable release, trixie, so uploads to unstable should be only
> > targeted to fix things in trixie).
[...]
> I have a few fixes ready and some more I would like to add
I have completed my work refreshing 'acct' for forky now, subject to
feedback!
The full set of changes I propose is here:
https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/acct/-/merge_requests/8
The first three commits I think are candidates for including in trixie.
1) Import a buffer overflow patch applied in Ubuntu (#1108428).
2) Update metadata for the above.
3) Add autopkgtest
The autopkgtest could reduce the load on the release team if we seek to
add the Ubuntu patch. I am aware there's a risk that a failing
autopkgtest makes things worse but I think we could derisk that by
cycling it through 'experimental' and simply removing the test if
the pseudo-excuses show it to be necessary and not be in a worse
position than before the test.
Andrew
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