Hi Niels, On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:09:02PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2015-04-14 17:47, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Package: release.debian.org > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi Stable release managers, > > > > This is not a wheezy-pu request per se. The recent libxrender update > > through security.d.o was initially just a rebuild of libxrender > > against a fixed version of libx11. This caused #782505 ("libxrender1: > > dist-upgrade breaks on multiarch due to conflict on > > changelog.Debian.gz"). > > > > The fix for debhelper in #708218 didn't make it into wheezy so binNMUs > > in wheezy for multiarch enabled packages will have the problem. > > > > Would it make sense to have an update of debhelper in wheezy fixing > > this issue as well? > > > > Regards, > > Salvatore > > > > > > >From a debhelper PoV, it looks reasonable at first glance. > > It looks like we would need to backport the 4 commits listed in the > attached "...-commits.diff" file. The combined result (excluding > changelog entries) is in the "...-dh_installchangelogs.diff" and had no > merge conflicts (only one chunk required fuzziness to be applied). > > Except a missing changelog entry, is the expected debdiff for such an > upload. Disclaimer, not tested (not even build tested).
Any comments from SRM on this? Specifically we still need to binNMU some reverse dependencies of libx11 for the security update in DSA-3224-1[1]. [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7439 Regards, Salvatore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org