scilab migration to testing (was: Unblocks for security fixes)

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Nov 17 10:30:31 UTC 2010


Helps if I actually add the cc...

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:27:28 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 23:15:33 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 
> > On 2010-11-15, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >> scilab: CVE-2010-3378, fixed in 5.2.2-8
> > >
> > >     out of date on mips: libscilab-java, scilab, scilab-cli, scilab-data, s=
> > > cilab-doc, scilab-doc-fr, scilab-doc-pt-br, scilab-full-bin, scilab-full-bi=
> > > n-dbg, scilab-include, scilab-minimal-bin, scilab-minimal-bin-dbg, scilab-t=
> > > est (from 5.2.2-2)
> > >     Updating libscilab-java fixes old bugs: #585679
> > >     scilab (source, i386, amd64, armel, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386=
> > > , mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc, hppa) has new bugs!
> > >     Updating scilab introduces new bugs: #591541
> > 
> > I suppose it should simply drop support for mips? It's not that anyone will
> > be doing numbercrunching on mips..
> > 
> scilab isn't getting built because libjogl-jni is missing on mips.  I'm
> guessing it's been removed when openjdk/mips was dropped, and hasn't
> come back since it was restored?  cc:ing the scilab maintainers, we need
> some action there.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julien
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