stable-security update of vim

[James Vega]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:50:26AM +0100, Steffen Joeris wrote:
> Hi James
> 
> Thanks for your time and caring about this.
> > > We would like to issue a DSA for these CVEs and were wondering, whether
> > > you as the maintainers could provide packages for stable-security?
> > >
> > > It would be great, if you could send us a full debdiff.
> > > Thanks in advance for your work.
> >
> > debdiff and source package are available on people[0].  Sorry for the
> > delay in getting the packages prepared.  I've included all the fixes
> > requested, including for netrw.
> I downloaded your packages and performed a debdiff, where I found the 
> following changed files (see list below). Now I don't understand, why all the 
> upstream patch files and files under /debian where changed for the security 
> update.
> I suppose it has something to do with vim packaging, but there you are the 
> expert. Could you quickly enlighten me? :)
> 
> Cheers
> Steffen
> 
> 
> white at security:~/vim$ debdiff old/vim_7.0-122+1etch3.dsc 
> new/vim_7.0-122+1etch4.dsc | lsdiff
> zcat: /home/white/vim/new/vim_7.0-122+1etch4.diff.gz: No such file or 
> directory

Because you didn't have vim_7.0-122+1etch4.diff.gz where it needs to be? :)

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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