[DRE-maint] Debian LTS Security update of ruby-mail

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi

Thanks. I'm sending this mail to debian-lts mail list too. I sent to wrong
list last time.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:59:46PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > Hi ruby-mail maintainers and Debian LTS team
> >
> > This is my first contribution to Debian LTS so it would be good if
> someone
> > review the change. I'm doing this as a training excercise and this is why
> > the maintainer have not been asked to this for me.
> >
> > I have prepared an update of the ruby-mail package to correct the problem
> > described in
> > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/TEMP-0000000-8B2928
> >
> > The prepared package is here:
> > http://apt.inguza.net/wheezy-security/ruby-mail
> > The debdiff is here:
> >
> http://apt.inguza.net/wheezy-security/ruby-mail/diff-against-previous-version-in-wheezy.patch
> > You can see the test.rb file that I wrote to test the update too.
> >
> > It actually looks like the problem was solved in SMTP::Net so this update
> > may not be needed, but on the other hand I just did a very small test so
> > I guess the security correction will not hurt either.
> >
> > The correction is a backport of the patch found here:
> >
> https://github.com/mikel/mail/commit/72befdc4dab3e6e288ce226a7da2aa474cf5be83
> >
> > I have tested that the described problem is corrected and I have tested
> > that it is possible to send an email successfully.
> >
> > I will upload the correction in four days unless someone objects.
>
> looks ok to me. thanks for taking care of it.
>



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