Debian Bug Tracking System <ow...@bugs.debian.org> (2014-11-12):
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:12:21 +0000
> From: Jonathan Wiltshire <j...@debian.org>
> To: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru>, 769129-d...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#769129: unblock: busybox/1:1.22.0-10
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
> Message-ID: <20141112201221.gh21...@lupin.home.powdarrmonkey.net>
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:02:35PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > 11.11.2014 18:08, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > > Please unblock package busybox.  Last upload has one security bugfix
> > > (CVE-2014-4607, #768945), the fix is from upstream stable branch,
> > > fixing an integer overflow in lzo decompressor; it adds a Built-Using
> > > control field for busybox-static variant (#768926), and also arranges
> > > build system to only produce binary or indep .debs (or both), depending
> > > on the d/rules target (binary-all vs binary-indep vs binary) -- this
> > > is a long-standing lintian bug which I overlooked previously.
> > > 
> > > (The Built-Using field generation is a bit fun here: I asked on IRC
> > > how people identify which libc is in use, and got various somewhat-
> > > incpmplete replies (the prob is that on different arches, libc package
> > > is named differently).  So I invented my own way for busybox, because
> > > this package allows me to do that -- I took the contents of 
> > > $shlibs:Depends
> > > variable for the dynamically-linked version, and transformed it into
> > > a list of sources required for Built-Using using dpkg-query.
> > 
> > So this was a bit preliminary (following the "notify the release team
> > early" rule too aggressively) -- this very Built-Using generation was
> > broken due to an error on my part (trivial) and due to bug in dpkg,
> > #588505.  I just uploaded new release fixing this, 1:1.22.0-11, will
> > see how it goes first, and will ping this bug if everything is okay.
> > (Yes, I verified the fixed release builds on kfreebsd-amd64 where
> > the problematic release failed).
> 
> Closing for now, feel free to reopen when you're ready.

Niels still has an unblock for it.

FTR, I'm personally scared by d's output.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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