[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#619857: closed by Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at debian.org> (Bug#619857: fixed in erlang 1:14.b.2-dfsg-1)

[Sergei Golovan]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Michael Gebetsroither <michael at mgeb.org> wrote:
> On 2011-04-01 09:20, Sergei Golovan wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Michael Gebetsroither <michael at mgeb.org> wrote:
> Hi Sergei,
>
>>> Thx for closing this bug so fast!
>>>
>>> Will all this bugs also be closed in 'Squeeze'?
>>
>> I don't think so. If it's so important, I'll create a backport of
>> R14B02 and put it into backports.debian.org.
>
> But the real problem is that the version from debian Squeeze
> is _unusable_ as it has multiple exploits in core parts and multiple
> silent data corruption bugs.

At least I didn't see these bugs myself.

>
> So R14A should NOT be used by anyone, as it is a BETA version
> of the erlang VM, so clearly the worst target for a long-term
> stable release such as Squeeze.
>
> The only real solution would be to include R14B0x in every
> Debian security upgrade of Squeeze.
> Yea the problem remains with those incompatible changes...

Unfortunately, I couldn't upload R14B01 and R14B02 to squeeze because
of freeze. (My fault. I should've left R13B05 instead.)

For now, I guess the only option is to backport fixes from R1402.

>
> Including R14B02 in squeeze-backports would be a good start to
> see which erlang software from squeeze has problems with R14B02
> and as a strongly encouraged version to use for most users.

I don't expect many problems with R14B02.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan