mozilla security updated (proposed) needs testing.

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Jun 18 13:14:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 02:02:04PM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:14:01AM +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 14:16 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > Please, test the mozilla suite I just uploaded (2:1.7.8-1sarge7). Keep your
> > > eyes open regressions and especially if it breaks any dependents or extensions.
> >  I ask the same. I have prepared 1.7.13 for Sid, can be downloaded from:
> >   http://www.barcikacomp.hu/deb/
> > Please test the binary; also if someone can at least try to start its
> > build on other arches and report back success/failure then it would be
> > cool.
> 
> I don't think this will be needed. Since you upload the real upstream 1.7.13, 
> just uploading after doing some quick tests on your local machine would be safe. 
> 
> If there are problems (unlikely imo), you can upload a fixed version later.
> 
> > It contains only the new upstream release and small fixes. But as I
> > see, Alexander has security fixes over 1.7.13 . Where can I get them as
> > separate patches? I see that it has a git tree, but where? Also I'm a
> > newbie with git, how can I find the revisions of the security patches in
> > the first place?
> > 
> 
> Just take all 1_00* patches from the proposed package in debian/patches. They
> are separated by issue already and should apply cleanly, since they are against 
> upstream 1.7.13 release. 
> 
> But please upload plain 1.7.13 first. If all is ok, add my patches or better 
> yet, wait till the 1.7.14 distributor release is out.

There won't be one. IIRC, they stopped supporting the 1.7 branch with
1.7.13.

Mike



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