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

[John Goerzen]

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?