minor memory leak in libgnutls26 pkcs11 initialization

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Tue Feb 5 06:40:24 UTC 2013


On 2013-02-04 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
> On 02/04/2013 02:02 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> You make it sound like svn might be a limiting factor for adopting a
> workflow you'd prefer.  have you considered moving the packaging scheme
> to a Vcs that supports your preferred workflow?
[...]

We might switch to git at some point, yes.

[...]
> > * 0b9d8d6f21dad85038c6de36d8fbd56271263f64 Corrected bug in PGP
> >   subpacket encoding
> > * The nettle version of "Stricter RSA PKCS #1 1.5 encoding and
> >   decoding. Reported by Kikuchi Masashi."

> These seem like useful (though more obscure) fixes that are narrow
> enough to warrant inclusion in wheezy (or in a point release if it comes
> to that).  Other than trying to minimize the debdiff for ease of review
> by the release team (which i definitely understand), is there a reason
> to keep those out of a stable release?

Limiting the diff is the major factor. #1 seemed pretty obscure to me,
#2 is not really relevant, as we are using gcrypt instead of nettle. -
24c6ce144a1e071210dc33cc794690429d74456c *is* included.
cu andreas
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