[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#496366: Preparing update of 'mafft' to fix #496366 ("grave" security bug).

Luk Claes luk at debian.org
Thu Sep 4 05:36:18 UTC 2008


Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:17:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:40:01PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>>
>>> Would you accept this package in Lenny to fix #496366?
>> If the diff is in line with this description, yes.
> 
> Hi Steve, hi all,
> 
> thank you for your patience. I have been in contact with Upstream who
> reviewd kindly finished the patching work (I did not manage to produce a
> working patch for the Ruby file).

> I added a paragraph about the patch to the manpages, but as the sources are in
> XML and the stylesheets evolved, the diff is big. All the changes unrelated to
> the bug are documented in the changelog, except the addition of
> DM-Upload-Allowed: yes, that is systematic in our packages anyway, and cosmetic
> improvements of the description. The patch itself now affects another file in
> which a similar security problem was uncovered by Upstream. Here is the full
> debdiff.

Please upload.

Cheers

Luk





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