Re: libpcre3 security update on lenny not installed

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:35:20AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:08:30PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>>> As far as I know there is a security update available for the package libpcre3
>>> currently installed in lenny. But on my system the security update is not
>>> installed commanding
>>>   aptitude full-upgrade
>>> Checking with
>>>   apt-cache policy libpcre3
>>> shows
>>>
>>> libpcre3:
>>>   Installed: 7.4-1
>>>   Candidate: 7.4-1
>>>   Version table:
>>>      7.6-2 0
>>>         500 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>>>  *** 7.4-1 0
>>>         600 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
>> ---------^^^^^
>>
>> Check your /etc/apt/preferences.
> 
> Sorry, didn't read carefull enough. Yes, it seems to me there is a 
> problem with the version number. I think the simplest method (to get is 
> installed) would be something like
> 
> aptitude download libpcre3=needed-version
> dpkg -i ...
> 
> I wonder why the strange version ... maybe you should search the BTS.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei

Thank you Andrei,

I couldn't find something relevant in the BTS. So I wrote directly to the Debian
security team. I'll report here about their answer.
-- 
Regards,
Jörg-Volker.