[Expired for psensor (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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When coordinating with upstream, please investigate if the proposed fix
is safe from race conditions.
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@Seth, I am the author of psensor.
I did the debdiff but unfortunely there is a specific ubuntu regression
The ubuntu packaging is linking /usr/share/psensor/www/jquery.js to
/usr/share/javascript/jquery/jquery.js which is rejected by the fix
(based on calling realpath C function)because it is
Jean-Philippe, ah, that is a bit of an annoyance. I don't know what to
recommend.
The race condition I was worried about is the check for the realpath()
appears to be done some point before the file is opened; a symlink could
be made between those two and the end result could be the same.
Of