On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 08:03:31AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 13 April 2018 at 14:43, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> | On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 07:38:51AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | >
> | > On 13 April 2018 at 11:51, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> | > | On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:14:18PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | > | >
> | > | > Further update. I took some files from the new (in-progress,
> unfinished it
> | > | > seems) upstream of libxls at https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/,
> and got
> | > | > some advice from the libxls maintainer.
> | > | >
> | > | > He also put new issue tickets up, one per CVE:
> | > | > https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues
> | > | >
> | > | > And that builds. It does not pass all unit tests (R / CRAN packages
> tend to
> | > | > have lots of those) but 'almost': 4 fail, 348 pass.
> | > | >
> | > | > We could release this, methinks. What is your recommendation (and it
> has
> | > | > been years since I last had to do a security release so help is as
> always
> | > | > appreciated).
> | > |
> | > | Do all of these patches/vulnerabilities apply to the version in stable?
> | >
> | > I took a first look. It might just be doable.
> | >
> | > | Then I'd say let's fix this via security.debian.org, see
> | > |
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#bug-security-building
> | > | for some references.
> | >
> | > Where would I get chroot for stable?
> |
> | There's multiple options, but e.g. with pbuilder you can simply create one
> using:
> |
> | sudo pbuilder create --distribution stretch
>
> Yes, sure, I just read the link you pointed to as implying there were
> ready-made-ones just an ssh away as we do (did?) for the porter machines.
Ah, ok. That doesn't exist, no.
Cheers,
Moritz
