Re: Testing needed for binutils security update

2014-12-28 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
On 2014-12-26 16:02, Luciano Bello wrote: On Tuesday 23 December 2014 13.30.22 Alexander Cherepanov wrote: CVEs were assigned only to a small number of issues so far and I'm not sure it's worth it to fix them without fixing others. That's true, but we have to draw the line somewhere. The bigge

Re: Testing needed for binutils security update

2014-12-26 Thread Luciano Bello
On Tuesday 23 December 2014 13.30.22 Alexander Cherepanov wrote: > CVEs were assigned only to a small number of issues so far and I'm not > sure it's worth it to fix them without fixing others. That's true, but we have to draw the line somewhere. The bigger the patches to backport, the easier to

Re: Testing needed for binutils security update

2014-12-23 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
On 2014-12-23 00:38, Luciano Bello wrote: I have been trying to fix the multiple security issues that binutils has pending[1] for wheezy/stable. It have been quite complicated and the patch affects many elements of the code. I would like to avoid regression as much as possible. Please, take a lo

Testing needed for binutils security update

2014-12-22 Thread Luciano Bello
Hi there, I have been trying to fix the multiple security issues that binutils has pending[1] for wheezy/stable. It have been quite complicated and the patch affects many elements of the code. I would like to avoid regression as much as possible. Please, take a look to it [2] (compiled for amd