[Python-apps-team] Wheezy update of mercurial?

[Javi Merino]

Hi Chris,

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 07:50:21AM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Dear maintainer(s),
> 
> The Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are
> currently open in the Wheezy version of mercurial:
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mercurial

There are backports for 3.7[0] and 4.1.3[1], which may be helpful.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/mercurial/commits/branch/sec-3.7
[1] https://bitbucket.org/octobus/mercurial-backport/branch/backport-4

> Would you like to take care of this yourself?

No, I am not maintaining mercurial any more.

> If yes, please follow the workflow we have defined here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development
> 
> If that workflow is a burden to you, feel free to just prepare an
> updated source package and send it to debian-lts at lists.debian.org
> (via a debdiff, or with an URL pointing to the source package,
> or even with a pointer to your packaging repository), and the members
> of the LTS team will take care of the rest. Indicate clearly whether you
> have tested the updated package or not.
> 
> If you don't want to take care of this update, it's not a problem, we
> will do our best with your package. Just let us know whether you would
> like to review and/or test the updated package before it gets released.
> 
> You can also opt-out from receiving future similar emails in your
> answer and then the LTS Team will take care of mercurial updates
> for the LTS releases.

I did a while ago.  I'm happy for the LTS team to take care of
mercurial updates for LTS releases.

Cheers,
Javi