Bug#515563: Please remove package mped

2009-02-16 Thread Angel Ortega
Luk Claes (l...@debian.org) wrote: > Well, stable won't be touched till the point release so until the point > release it will stay this broken I'm afraid. At the point release we can > choose to either remove the package or fix the package (small targeted > diff). Do you think the latter is not p

Bug#515563: Please remove package mped

2009-02-16 Thread Luk Claes
Angel Ortega wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > Luk Claes (l...@debian.org) wrote: > >> It could be fixed in a point release, though only with a targeted fix >> (no new upstream version). > > Though I understand the reasoning, this does not change the truth: the > über-old version in Le

Bug#515563: Please remove package mped

2009-02-16 Thread Angel Ortega
Thanks for the quick response. Luk Claes (l...@debian.org) wrote: > It could be fixed in a point release, though only with a targeted fix > (no new upstream version). Though I understand the reasoning, this does not change the truth: the über-old version in Lenny can break things. This may cause

Bug#515563: Please remove package mped

2009-02-15 Thread Luk Claes
Angel Ortega wrote: > (Note: I'm upstream author for the mped package). > > Lenny has been released containing a version of the Minimum Profit text > editor that is from 2005 and that can cause severe information lossage due > to an incorrect handling of UTF-8 encoding. > > An RC bug was filed (

Bug#515563: Please remove package mped

2009-02-15 Thread Angel Ortega
Package: mped Version: 3.3.17-1 Severity: critical Tags: lenny (Note: I'm upstream author for the mped package). Lenny has been released containing a version of the Minimum Profit text editor that is from 2005 and that can cause severe information lossage due to an incorrect handling of UTF-8 enc