On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:24:23PM +0400, Alexey Nezhdanov wrote:

> tags 308766 + security
> thanks
> Thursday, 12 May 2005 12:32 Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Package: jabber-irc
> > Version: 0.1cvs20050311-1
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > Hi Alexey,
> >
> > I was preparing to sponsor your upload of jabber-irc 0.1cvs20050420-1 to
> > fix RC bug #307734, but in the process, lintian spit out this error:
> >
> >   E: jabber-irc: python-script-but-no-python-dep ./usr/sbin/jabberd-irc
> >
> > This is a missing dependency, and therefore an RC policy violation (and a
> > violation of the python policy in particular).  Please fix this bug.
> Bug fixed. You can take fixed packages from the same place:
> http://www.penza-gsm.ru/snake/xmpp/jabber-irc_0.1cvs20050420-2.diff.gz
> http://www.penza-gsm.ru/snake/xmpp/jabber-irc_0.1cvs20050420-2.dsc
> http://www.penza-gsm.ru/snake/xmpp/jabber-irc_0.1cvs20050420.orig.tar.gz
> 
> > In the meantime, since bug #307734 has now been open for a week, jabber-irc
> > will be removed from testing.
> That's a pity.
> I'm now setting "security" tag since this bug is a DoS since remote user can 
> force server to crash.

I don't see how this follows from the missing dependency bug.  Can you
explain?

-- 
 - mdz


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