squeeze webkit security update

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Mon Feb 21 18:36:48 UTC 2011


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:20:40PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:42:31 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > On Monday 21 February 2011 18:23:52 Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > I've prepared a package for the new stable upstream webkit 1.2 branch
> > >  [0]. That branch now only contains security fixes.  Would it be OK to
> > > push this new upstream version as a DSA for squeeze?
> > 
> > Thanks. I think conceptually this is a good idea, I do have some practical 
> > issues with the current package:
> > 
> > - The version number 1.2.7-1 won't work for stable since this is higher than 
> > testing/unstable. In the past this would be propagated automatically to the 
> > latter ones but I think that hasn't worked for many years now. 
> 
> Is there any way to restore this functionality?  This would be the
> ideal solution.

Realistically, no.
 
Cheers,
        Moritz



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