[Pkg-gnupg-maint] [SRM] Update of gnupg/gnupg2 to fix a memory leak

[Eric Dorland]

* Daniel Leidert (daniel.leidert.spam at gmx.net) wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 23.05.2009, 17:30 -0400 schrieb Eric Dorland:
> 
> [gnupg update for stable]
> > I didn't see any response to this, did anything come of it?
> 
> Hi Eric,
> 
> We already uploaded a gnupg update for stable and oldstable. The patches
> are here:
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnupg/gnupg/branches/lenny/debian/patches/101_172115_fix_keyring_memory_leak.dpatch
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-gnupg/gnupg/branches/lenny/debian/patches/101_321871_unset_noecho_on_sigint.dpatch
> 
> IMO you can use both for gnupg2 too. As the point releaes date was
> announced today, you probably have to hurry up a bit, if you want to get
> these issues fixed for gnupg2 in stable/oldstable too.

The second patch is not applying well to the version we have in
lenny. In fact the code has changed enough that I not sure where to
call the cleanup from. Could someone take a look and give me an
opinion?

Also, were I to succeed, which upload queue do you use for such
things?
 
> BTW: Would you like to join the pkg-gnupg (packaging) project at
> alioth.d.o and put the packaging files of gnupg2 under (preferrably)
> subversion control in our repository too? Bugs in gnupg2 usually also
> occur in gnupg and vice versa. I already travelled a bit through the
> list of open bugs in gnupg2 and forwarded several to upstream (where
> they already got fixed). If you would like to join us, it might reduce
> your and our workload.
> 
> Regards, Daniel
> 

-- 
Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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