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Hi,

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 08:04:47PM +0100, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> Libetpan's upstream has made a new releaseĀ¹ targetted to
> fix POODLE breakage (CVE-2014-3566) and some other bugfixes,
> albeit one feature was added, hence the pre-approval request.
> 
> Unfortunately it also includes a large ammount of fixed
> source file copyright/license headers which were missing,
> but now causes some noise. These were excluded from the
> filtered diff, but only when there were on other changes
> in the file, so still some there.
> 
> Appart from that, most of changes not related to the above
> bugfixes are type or typecast fixes (which cause also a
> lot of noise, but still there). Diffstat summary is:
> 
> 104 files changed, 1778 insertions(+), 1109 deletions(-)
> 
> No soname bump, and only added symbols, which is the good
> part.

The diff quite big, and includes a number of changes which don't comply with
the freeze policy.

https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html

A targeted fix (as a patch on top of the current version in testing, so
without the new upstream) might be acceptable, but keep in mind that the
deadline for fixes for important bugs is Dec 5th.

Cheers,

Ivo


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