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Re: Testing needed for xorg-server security update



On mer., 2014-12-10 at 06:56 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Hi,
> there's been a new release of xorg-server fixing multiple security
> vulnerabilities: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2014-December/002500.html
> 
> The update is ready for Wheezy/stable and has been successfully tested 
> on an Intel graphics adapter.
> 
> But since different hardware will exercise different code paths and
> since the backported patches are rather huge in size, so I'd like to
> have some additional pre-release testing on people running Debian
> stable/wheezy with the nouveau driver or the radeon driver. (Additional
> testing with the intel driver would be great as well).
> 
> You can fetch the updated packages for i386 and amd64 at 
> http://people.debian.org/~jmm/
> 
> Since a lot of the changes involve GLX, you could e.g. test with OpenArena
> or Nexuiz. Playing games _and_ helping out Debian, when do you ever have 
> the chance for that :-)
> 
> Please report success or errors to team@security.debian.org

Just tested on Intel (i965GM) and it seems to work fine (glslideshow,
glxgears and openarena).

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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