[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#870081: electrum: Cold Storage wallet unusable due to upstream bug

[Vaclav Synacek]

Package: electrum
Version: 2.7.9-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Cold Storage wallets are unable to sign a transaction in electrum version
2.7.9. This is an upstrem bug described in
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/2508
and fixed in version 2.7.11
( https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/283/RELEASE-NOTES#L77 )

The impact of this issue is serious for users using cold storage electrum
as they are unable to spend any bitcoins in their cold wallets with this
version of this package.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages electrum depends on:
ii  python           2.7.13-2
ii  python-electrum  2.7.9-1

Versions of packages electrum recommends:
ii  python-qt4  4.11.4+dfsg-2+b2

Versions of packages electrum suggests:
pn  python-btchip  <none>
pn  python-trezor  <none>
pn  python-zbar    <none>

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