Hey Sylvain,

ti 14.7.2026 klo 12.14 Sylvain Beucler ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
> On 14/07/2026 09:00, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 08:41:51AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >> My dashboard shows CVE-2025-70102 as still being unfixed for
> >> oldoldstable. Since Bullseye is LTS at this point, this goes via the
> >> Security team. The enclosed patch includes the fix for the CVE and
> >> some basic packaging touchups to silence Lintian and CI. You're
> >> welcome to use it.
>
> There's no particular urgency for dhcpcd5 at the moment,

I agree. These are minor fixes, and Bullseye is one month away from
moving to archive.d.o anyhow.

> but if Martin-Éric wants, he can push an update following:
> https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/Development.html
> We can help with the administrative tasks.

Noted.

> - According to
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/dhcpcd5
> please also fix CVE-2026-56114, to avoid a single-CVE DLA with low-severity.

That one doesn't show on my dashboard for dhcpcd5. It's easily added,
since it's a one character fix.

> - Please explain why we need a new dependency to sysvinit-utils during a
> stable release.

Lintian complains loudly about an outdated Depends. Adding that
alternative to lsb-base quiets it.

> - Please attempt to de-noise the debdiff, by avoiding patch refreshes

dpkg-source complains without it.

> and changes related to upstream tarballs, while we'll remain on the same
> v7.1.0 anyway.

Salsa CI fails without the added PGP key and updated watch recipe.

> - Please name the patches according to the CVE rather than the Git
> commit ID, so it's easier to understand which is fixing which.

Noted.

> - No need for a 7.1.0-2+deb11u2 if 7.1.0-2+deb11u1 never was released.

Shrugs. I could consolidate the changes since I'm still in Salsa Git
at this point.

> - Target dist should be bullseye-security.

Noted.

> - Please explain how you tested the update.

See Bug#1141987. I don't have any Bullseye host left, but the fixes
are one-character changes that have been verified to boot on Bookworm
and Trixie.

Martin-Éric

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