[Secure-testing-team] Re: summary of what's blocking security
fixes from testing
Joey Hess
joeyh at debian.org
Wed Sep 14 14:00:05 UTC 2005
Steve Langasek wrote:
> > bzip
> > 8/10 days old
> > chmlib
> > 3/10 days old
> > courier
> > too young
> > gxine
> > too young
> > squid
> > too young
> > sqwebmail
> > too young
>
> Feel free to add urgent hints for any of these.
None of them are that serious holes, IRC.
> > ntp
> > 177 days old
> > 3 RC bugs, max 98 days old, none with responses from maintainers
> > recommend removal from testing (and/or debian)
>
> Are these different security bugs than the ones already fixed via
> proposed-updates?
Thanks, you're right it's not vulnerable.
> > openmotif
> > 106 days old
> > non-free package, still missing s390 build
> > (I tried and failed to build this on raptor, machine is too
> > unstable.)
>
> This package really doesn't appear to have the necessary baseline
> support from porters and/or the maintainer to let us keep it around.
> There's a total of one package in testing still depending on openmotif;
> I think we should give the arb maintainer a shot at fixing it, and then
> drop it from testing if he doesn't get anywhere.
Agreed, although I think you might as well let the maintainers of ida
and motv have a crack at it too.
> > python2.1
> > alpha build succeeded 2 weeks ago but gone missing
> > mips, mipsel, powerpc builds ditto
> > blocked by gmp
> > python2.2
> > FTBFS m68k (ICE)
> > FTBFS hppa
> > blocked by gmp
>
> No hope that we can get rid of these yet...?
Very little depends on python2.1. python2.2 has a bit more stuff but
certianly not too much that filing some RC bugs and dropping it might
not be the easiest way to fix this issue.
--
see shy jo
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