On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:21:02PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 19:07 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > #785727 describes a regression in the version of nbd-server in jessie > > wrt the one in wheezy, related to the "allow" configuration file. It's > > not a security-related bug (as it disallows more than it should), but > > it's still a problem. > > > > I'm not sure how often the "allow" feature is used, however, and if the > > file is not in use, nbd-server will work perfectly well. It provides > > additional functionality above a firewall if someone would like to allow > > access to some, but not all, exports from a particular range of IP > > addresses; but beyond that, it's not very important. > > > > Is this something that would warrant a stable update? > > Potentially, but a) the metadata for #785727 implies that the bug > currently affects the version of nbd in unstable, which would need > resolving first
Only because I'm lazy and didn't fix the metadata; the bug does not actually affect unstable, and the patch that's sent to the bug in <20150601152240.gc9...@lemon.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> came from the 3.8..3.9 git history. I just updated the metadata. > and b) we'd want to see a full debdiff for a package > built and tested on jessie in order to confirm. Okay, I'll work on that then. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150714204000.ga3...@grep.be
