On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 07:02:07AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> To claim that "because this bug affects me, it *must* be
> fixed, even when it does not meet the criteria for a normal security bug
> and when the maintainer thinks there is a risk of breaking working
> configurations for other users" is somewhat inconsiderate of others and
> shows a disregard for the rather robust process that we try to utilize
> to ensure that we properly balance the needs of everyone involved.

I don't think that's the claim, to be fair.

It's more:

        Release         gdbm version    Status
        -----------     -------------   --------------
        Buster          1.18            no pre-read feature
        Bullseye        1.19            pre-read added, no way to disable it
        Bookworm        1.20            reverted back to default behaviour,
                                        added GBM_PREREAD to enable it

It's a regression in upstream, which upstream agreed with, and upstream
fixed it.  The question is how to get the benefits to Bullseye users.


On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 01:41:36PM +0200, Christopher Huhn wrote:
> A backport of the bookworm package would be my way to go, I guess.

This is probably the easiest path, if someone can upload it to
debian backports for Marc.

- Chris

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