Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:50:56PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Niko Tyni wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:19:38AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oldstable release managers: will you accept a libarchive-tar-perl
>>>> 1.38-3~etch2 upload with the diversions added, or can you suggest
>>>> another fix? What's the schedule for the Etch r9 release?
>> Introducing diversions in a point release is a no go IMHO.
>>
>> As the Conflicts entry did not leave room for any update, that's the bug
>> that should be fixed IMHO.
>
> I disagree it's a bug and there was plenty of room between 1.30-2 and 1.38-2.
> But never mind that.
>
> As we can only update the Lenny Conflicts entry for 5.0.3, that leaves
> broken upgrades from Etch r9 to Lenny 5.0.{0,1,2}. Is this really acceptable?
>
> Is it possible to remove 1.38-3~etch1 from oldstable-proposed-updates?
Yes, that's possible via a bugreport against ftp.debian.org. It would
not be possible to upload a lower version though.
> Even if it can't be re-uploaded with a lower version number, leaving
> this small security fix (it was not worth a DSA) out of the oldstable
> update altogether would be preferrable to the breakage IMO.
Ok, then please file a bugreport against ftp.debian.org.
Cheers
Luk
PS: I'm Bcc-ing the Security Team on this.
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