Bug#280647: [exim] Why did this message get frozen?

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:10:06AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:44:17PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2004-11-12 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:49:39AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > From the changelog for 4.40:
> >  
> > > > 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim
> > > > client was   using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the
> > > > client delivery process  crashed while trying to generate an error
> > > > log message.                    
> > 
> > > Is the fix for this easily backportable to 4.34?
> > 
> > Browsing over the diff I guess yes, the two lines of changes to
> > tls-gnu.c seem to be self-contained.
> 
> Is there a reason we can't get the latest 4.4x package in Debian?

As you might have noticed, exim is a base package. base happens to be
frozen for a couple of months now, and is not likely to be unfrozen
any time soon.

Thus, it is better to have this fix backported to the package
currently in Debian so that sarge (if ever released) can profit from
the fix.

4.4x packages for experimental are currently being prepared. The
maintainers would like to delay the point from where two versions of
the package need to be supported as far as possible.

sarge will release with 4.34. Period. I don't like that, but that's
the way Debian works. If, if only, we would make any noticeable
progress with the release.

Greetings
Marc

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