[Pkg-puppet-devel] [DSA 2715-1] puppet security update & squeeze-backports

[Russ Allbery]

Hoshi Hoshimoto <hoshi.hoshimoto at googlemail.com> writes:

> are there any plans to provide puppet packages including the latest
> security fixes for squeeze-backports?

> Puppet in wheezy/updates is at 2.7.18-5 as of DSA 2715-1, but in
> squeeze-backports it's still at 2.7.18-3~bpo60+1.

> Providing updated packages for squeeze-backports would make this user of
> oldstable quite happy :-)

Unfortunately, the changes in 2.7.18-5 add a new dependency and
backporting that dependency is apparently quite hard.  I've upgraded all
of my Puppet masters to wheezy instead.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>