[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#375630: please package libtasn1 0.3.5

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Tue Jun 27 18:01:54 UTC 2006


On 2006-06-27 James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> On (27/06/06 11:06), Simon Josefsson wrote:
[...] 
> > The reason was a bug in libtasn1.  I've now release a new version of
> > libtasn1, 0.3.5, that fixes this.  Would you please package this?

> I have tried to do this but there are a couple of things I am not sure
> about.

> 1) Does this require a shlibs bump? The minor version of the .so has
> changed. 

The minor revision will be changed for every sourcecode change, it is
best practice for libtool using libraries to always bump LT_VERSION.
(See libtool manual 6.3 Updating library version information). The
only change to the source is

--- libtasn1-3-0.3.4/lib/coding.c       2006-05-06 12:57:53.000000000 +0200
+++ libtasn1-3-0.3.5/lib/coding.c       2006-06-26 16:28:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
 {
   int len_len;

-  if (der == NULL || str_len <= 0)
+  if (der == NULL || str_len < 0)
     return;
   asn1_length_der (str_len, der, &len_len);
   memcpy (der + len_len, str, str_len);

> 2) I have just changed the version in the changelog entry we are
> currently working on. Is that correct.

Yes, it is.

> Also, that changelog entry has your non-debian.org email address in it,
> which is giving lintian warnings. I assume that you will change this
> when it comes to time to upload it though.

[X] Done.

cu andreas
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