On 07/23/2016 10:10 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:04:53AM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote: >>> Well, then it would be great if someone could upload the fixed >>> package for me. :) >> >> I've uploaded the wheezy version to security-master. >> >> However, whilst I reserved a DLA I have not announced it due to the >> required binNMUs - it would be pointless, misleading and/or dangerous >> as dietlibc is a static library. >> >> I need some help here - do I simply request these in the usual way? >> I have not done this for security before. > > If the source for the respective binary packages you want to binNMU is > not in the security-archive you need to to a sourceful upload without > changes (but wait first that the dietlibc version has been built) and > avialable. I guess that is for almost all the cases you need to do, > since they are if I understood correctly just 'minit' and 'mksh', > neither of those two are on security.d.o, so you need to do a > sourcefull upload.
Please note that the version of minit in Wheezy and Jessie is the same. I have also asked the release team to schedule a binNMU in Jessie once the upload to Jessie is done, and to avoid problems, have asked them to use at least +b2 in Jessie to avoid problems. But in doubt, please coordinate with the release team in this regard. https://bugs.debian.org/832171 Regards, Christian