Bug#542784: New upstream version available (2.0.0.23)

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:10:47PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:05:22PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:02:33PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > New upstream versions are normal for this kind of stuff in
> > > > > unstable/testing, so i thought it was not noteworthy.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is the security team following that road?
> > > > 
> > > > The security team is backporting the fixes.
> > > 
> > > I've been looking into the changes for the last two hours
> > > and I think I'll have to revert to building an update based
> > > on a 3.12.4 snapshot.
> > > 
> > > The changes are massive and very subtle to backport, so I'm
> > > afraid I might miss something seemimgly harmless, yet crucial.
> > > I'll give it some more beating, haven't made up my mind yet.
> > 
> > If you go for a new upstream release, you should go for 3.12.3 or
> > 3.12.3.1, i think. At least, they have upstream tarballs and contain the
> > fixes.
> 
> Thanks, will keep that in mind.

Also note that to the best of my knowledge, 3.12.4 has not been
announced yet.

Mike