[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#744194: openssl: Updating main openssl package should warn about outdated derived packages

[Dominik Röttsches]

Package: openssl
Version: 1.0.1g-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

when updating my sid system to fix the Heartbleed bug, I only updated the openssl package from 1.0.1f to 1.0.1-g1, but not libssl1.0.0 for example, leaving a number of services initially vulnerable until I noticed my mistake. 

I may not be the only one who did this mistake, hence I would suggest to either issue a warning that there are remaining outdated packages and suggest to update those as well, or introduce a dependency so that updating openssl requires updating the derived packages, if that's feasible.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openssl depends on:
ii  libc6        2.18-4
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1g-2

openssl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openssl suggests:
ii  ca-certificates  20140325

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