Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061216 22:20]: I'll update this as soon as we have more information (and I would also like to check the symbol lists before an upload - I'm working on this right now). Ok, more updates: The

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:57:12AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 08:27]: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 08:13:05AM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Just for the record. The libpng security issues were communicated to the security team twice on Nov 9 and 15

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 09:31]: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: 7 X+ ++ These may or may not be a problem depending on whether the ABI has changed between the versions exported in 1.2.8 and 1.2.13/15. We should probably look at

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 10:11]: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 09:31]: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: 2 X+ These are the only two symbols that would potentially be a reason to prefer .13 over .15. Agreed.

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 09:31]: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: 1 X++ There are an issue for shlibs only. (Assuming they're meant to be exported and shouldn't be suppressed to keep people from using them!) This is

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:16:11AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 10:11]: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 09:31]: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: 2 X+ These are the only two symbols that would

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 10:11]: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 09:31]: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: 7 X+ ++ These may or may not be a problem depending on whether the ABI has changed between the versions

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 10:40]: Should I prepare a 1.2.15 debian package with the shlibs and the png.h changes? Please wait a few more moments, I think we also need to massively create conflicts with sarge packages. I'm running a check currently. Cheers, Andi --

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:10:29AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 09:31]: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: 7 X+ ++ These may or may not be a problem depending on whether the ABI has changed between the

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 09:31]: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: 125 X+ I would say these aren't a problem either, at least to such an extent that we would want to revert them; they've been gone from unstable since September 2005 without

RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, I write down what I think we should do, and how this handles our issues. This is explicitly a request for comments, and I want to wait at least until either Steve and Joss have both agreed to it, or 24 hours has passed, whatever is earlier. So, what needs to be done: 1. Adding back

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:58:13AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Checking testing found in pool/main/a/amsn/amsn_0.95+dfsg2-0.1_i386.deb: /usr/lib/amsn/utils/TkCximage/TkCximage.so found in pool/main/d/drscheme/drscheme_352-6_i386.deb:

Re: RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 19 décembre 2006 à 11:32 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : 1. Adding back png_read_destroy and png_write_destroy which were accidentially removed between 1.2.13-4 and 1.2.15~beta5-0. 2. Conflict with the following packages (from sarge): libtk-img (= 1.3-13) mzscheme (= 209-5)

Re: RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:43:40AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: However this is not going to help with other upstream changes that haven't received any testing. I don't think using a release that has not been tested in Debian for at least several months is reasonable; I don't trust upstream

Re: RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: I write down what I think we should do, and how this handles our issues. This is explicitly a request for comments, and I want to wait at least until either Steve and Joss have both agreed to it, or 24 hours has passed, whatever is

Re: RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 12:07]: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: I write down what I think we should do, and how this handles our issues. This is explicitly a request for comments, and I want to wait at least until either Steve and Joss

Re: RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi Aníbal, I think we have now a common conclusion: * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 11:32]: 1. Adding back png_read_destroy and png_write_destroy which were accidentially removed between 1.2.13-4 and 1.2.15~beta5-0. 2. Conflict with the following packages (from sarge): mzscheme

Re: RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:21:32PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 12:07]: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:32:06AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: I write down what I think we should do, and how this handles our issues. This is explicitly a request for comments, and

Re: RFC: proposal for libpng (was: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0)

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 14:11]: Hi Aníbal, I think we have now a common conclusion: * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 11:32]: 1. Adding back png_read_destroy and png_write_destroy which were accidentially removed between 1.2.13-4 and 1.2.15~beta5-0. 2.

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:40:46PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: JFTR, I also don't seem to have this mail now. I'm attaching the email I sent. Ok, thanks. There doesn't seem to be anything in there that needs RM comment at this point, 1.2.13 is in testing and we're going with 1.2.15

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 18 décembre 2006 à 16:39 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061216 22:20]: I'll update this as soon as we have more information (and I would also like to check the symbol lists before an upload - I'm working on this right now). Ok, more updates:

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! It looks like that we will get libpng 1.2.8 back to Etch, right? But one of my packages (optipng) needs at least libpng 1.2.9 (it needs png_get_uint_32 and png_save_uint_32). When version 1.2.8 gets uploaded, probably optipng will FTBFS and I will upload a new version statically linked

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:19:51PM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! It looks like that we will get libpng 1.2.8 back to Etch, right? But one of my packages (optipng) needs at least libpng 1.2.9 (it needs png_get_uint_32 and png_save_uint_32). When version 1.2.8

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 12/18/06, Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a better idea than statically linking against libpng? Add png_get_uint_32 and png_save_uint_32 to optipng and link against libpng 1.2.8 ? Actually they are present on libpng 1.2.8 (but they are exported only if PNG_INTERNAL

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 18 décembre 2006 à 17:12 -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira a écrit : Hi! On 12/18/06, Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have a better idea than statically linking against libpng? Add png_get_uint_32 and png_save_uint_32 to optipng and link against libpng 1.2.8 ?

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Nelson A. de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061218 19:27]: Do you have a better idea than statically linking against libpng? We will need to work out what is best overall - whatever that is. We will keep optipng's situation in mind on that, thanks for your mail. Cheers, Andi --

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 08:13:05AM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Just for the record. The libpng security issues were communicated to the security team twice on Nov 9 and 15 2006. On Nov 15 2006 both vorlon and aba were made aware of the security problems. Well no, I'm not aware of

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061219 08:27]: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 08:13:05AM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Just for the record. The libpng security issues were communicated to the security team twice on Nov 9 and 15 2006. On Nov 15 2006 both vorlon and aba were made aware

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061215 13:46]: The only sane solution if you want to get quickly to a releaseable state is to go back to the last 1.2.8 package and to backport security fixes. I've also explained more long-term solutions for the libpng madness on my planet posting.

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-16 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 14:57:19 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Josselin Mouette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061215 13:46]: The only sane solution if you want to get quickly to a releaseable state is to go back to the last 1.2.8 package and to backport security fixes. I've also explained more

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-16 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Mike Hommey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:45:05PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 14:57:19 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Anibal, do you want to upload the package, or should I NMU it? I'll upload it. I'll

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-16 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julien Cristau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061216 21:45]: I've prepared a package based on 1.2.8rel-7, with a patch for CVE-2006-5793. No other security issues seem to be mentioned in the sid package's changelog, but let me know if I've missed something. Source package at

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 14 décembre 2006 à 23:19 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit : Unfortunately, 1.2.8 is not the version of libpng in testing today; 1.2.13 is, and that version has *known* RC bugs. Moreover, there has now been a shlibs bump in this beta version (warranted or not, I don't know) that blocks

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-15 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Josselin Mouette wrote: The only sane solution if you want to get quickly to a releaseable state is to go back to the last 1.2.8 package and to backport security fixes. I've also explained more long-term solutions for the libpng madness on my planet posting. I agree. Especially, as the

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 07:01:20PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: The only sane solution if you want to get quickly to a releaseable state is to go back to the last 1.2.8 package and to backport security fixes. I've also explained more long-term

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-15 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:23:11PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 07:01:20PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: The only sane solution if you want to get quickly to a releaseable state is to go back to the last 1.2.8 package and

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:13:36PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: As I'm no longer the maintainer, I don't have any say to what happens to this package, but my advice, based on my painful experience with libpng, would be to *not* unblock it now. Releasing with a beta version that hasn't been

please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-12 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Hello RMs, Please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0. Upstream provided this beta version of libpng to fix RC bug #401044. It also fixes two other RC bugs, #401423 and #401465. Changes: libpng (1.2.15~beta5-0) unstable; urgency=high . * New upstream release. - Fixed asm API functions

Re: please unblock libpng 1.2.15~beta5-0

2006-12-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, As I'm no longer the maintainer, I don't have any say to what happens to this package, but my advice, based on my painful experience with libpng, would be to *not* unblock it now. Releasing with a beta version that hasn't been widely tested is a dead end. Even without the beta flag, there