Bug#482698: CVE-2008-1685: removes possible protection mechanism against overflows

2008-05-24 Thread Brad Roberts
See this long thread on the gcc list for issues with that CVE: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-04/msg00115.html Later, Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#419889: amanda-server: Problem apparently still happens with 2.5.1p3 from unstable

2007-04-25 Thread Brad Roberts
> So, in most cases, I'd rather much more have a partial dump of the file that > changed (normally a log file), than having to exclude it from the dump just > to stop Amanda from complaining and then have no log file at all in case of a > disaster. > > Anyway, if you don't think this is a goo

Bug#419889: amanda-server: Problem apparently still happens with 2.5.1p3 from unstable

2007-04-24 Thread Brad Roberts
Claudio Martins wrote: Hi again, I dug a little in Amanda code and found the reason why it was still complaining about Strange dumps, even though the behavior with respect to tar exit codes had been fixed. Please consider including the patch below on the next Debian Amanda packages relea

Bug#402221: fixed in amanda 1:2.5.1p3-1

2007-03-08 Thread Brad Roberts
Can we expect this update to migrate into testing soon? The versions of tar and amanda in testing conspire to make backups of busy systems a problem due to tar's behavior change when it comes to changed files. 2.5.1p3 fixes amanda to cope with this change. According to http://bjorn.haxx.se/d