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RC Bugs 2013/35

2013-08-25 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Work done on RC bugs for the week 2013/35:

#720740 - liblatex-encode-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: POD failure

RC Bugs 2013/34

2013-08-24 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Not much explicit work done on the RC bugs front:

#720662 - libtest-valgrind-perl: FTBFS: kwalitee test failure

Disable the kwalitee tests by not installing libtest-kwalitee-perl in Build-Depends-Indep.
#719827 - backuppc: FTBFS with perl 5.18: POD errors
#720768 - libsnmp-info-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: POD failures

RC Bugs 2013/33

2013-08-17 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

On DebCamp and DebConf I have worked on some updates for the perl 5.18 transitions. Some of this issues are now marked serious and need to be fixed for the transition.

RC Bugs 2013/30

2013-07-27 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Not much work done in 2013/30 (and 2013/29) actually fixing bugs.

#717936 - bind9: CVE-2013-4854: A specially crafted query can cause BIND to terminate abnormally

Uploaded 1:9.8.4.dfsg.P1-6+nmu3 to unstable.

RC Bugs 2013/28

2013-07-07 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Now again little amount of direct work on RC bugs:

#714541 - ruby1.8: CVE-2013-4073: Hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

Tested and prepared packages for unstable, not yet uploaded.
#714543 - ruby1.9.1: CVE-2013-4073: Hostname check bypassing vulnerability in SSL client

Tested and prepared packages for unstable, not yet uploaded.

I'm going to DebConf13

2013-07-06 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as debconf, debconf13, debian

I will attend Debconf13 this year in Switzerland.

RC Bugs 2013/26

2013-06-23 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Work done on RC bugs for 2013/26:

#713373 - starman: FTBFS: dhautotest: perl Build test returned exit code 255

This is a regression introduced in libnet-server-perl/2.007-2. Reassigned the bug accordingly and marked as fixed with 2.007-3.
#713378 - get-flash-videos: FTBFS: dhautotest: make -j1 test returned exit code 2

Sent information to the BTS.

RC Bugs 2013/25

2013-06-16 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Work done on RC bugs in 2013/25:

#712160 - keystone: CVE-2013-2157 - authentication bypass when using LDAP backend

Verified that patch was applied to unstable and closed the bugreport.

RC Bugs 2013/24

2013-06-09 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Small amount of work done on week 2013/24:

#711033 - CVE-2013-2112 CVE-2013-1968

Uploaded NMU to DELAYED/2 queue.

RC Bugs 2013/23

2013-06-04 by Salvatore Bonaccorso, tagged as bugs, debian, rc

Again not much work done on RC bugs in 2013/23:

#698126 - ifuse: Depends on fuse-utils; uninstallable in sid

Upload package to DELAYED/2 queue.
#711239 - libmodule-signature-perl: CVE-2013-2145: arbitrary code execution when verifying SIGNATURE

Upload new upstream version to unstable.

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