[Pkg-shadow-devel] Wheezy update of shadow?

Serge E. Hallyn serge at hallyn.com
Fri Aug 26 19:11:14 UTC 2016


Quoting Bálint Réczey (balint at balintreczey.hu):
> Hi Serge,
> 
> 2016-08-06 5:42 GMT+02:00 Serge E. Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com>:
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 02:54:13PM +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> >> 2016-07-26 14:50 GMT+02:00 Serge E. Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com>:
> >> > Quoting Bálint Réczey (balint at balintreczey.hu):
> ...
> >> > You mean http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-shadow/shadow.git/ right?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >
> > Ok, what's there now builds and runs fine for me.  I think this will
> > be a short-lived release as I'll probably tag 4.4 soon upsream, but
> > do you mind taking look at 4.301 in git?
> 
> I have just checked the repo.
> I think the added patches in debian/ are good and I would also add the CVE id.
> 
> However, importing new upstream did not go well. It added a lot of
> generated files and it has not updated the upstream branch.

Yeah, I noticed that and haven't had time to try to figure out how to
fix it.  (Currently in transit back from linuxcon)

> I suggest reverting master to debian/4.2-2-12-gf9aecd1, pointing
> debian/watch to GitHub and importing 4.3 (/4.3.1?) using uscan and
> gbp import-orig.
> 
> There is a good description of the git work-flow at:
> https://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit

Ok, thanks.

> Do you mind if I add the 3 patches to Wheezy LTS while you are working
> on the version for unstable?

Sounds good to me - thanks.



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