On Friday, September 18th, 2026 at 16:37, Sylvain Beucler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your work on crash :)
> 
> The process is https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/Development.html
> but we normally only accept security fixes.
> 
> How frequent and severe is the segfault you fixed?

I have not looked at the segfault severity but it happens every time a dump is 
opened. crash is completely useless in bookworm.

Let me know if this is worth fixing and I'll proceed otherwise I'm dropping it.

Thanks
...Juerg


> 
> Also the person on Mentors mistakenly reviewed your fix thinking it was
> for unstable, but not for a security update, where changes are minimal.
> Don't modify debian/copyright or introduce cosmetics whitespace changes
> in released dists, because this noisifies the security review.
> Also target bookworm-security, and more generally refer to the
> documentation above for details.
> 
> Cheers!
> Sylvain
> 
> On 08/09/2026 07:32, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> > I've fixed a grave bug in crash in Bookworm [1] and uploaded to mentors [2].
> > What's the process to move this forward?
> >
> > Thanks
> > ...Juerg
> >
> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1141862
> > [2] https://mentors.debian.net/package/crash/
> >
> 
>

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