Public bug reported:
Please backport chkrootkit 0.50-3.2 (universe) from xenial to trusty.
Reason for the backport:
========================
The version of chkrootkit that is currently available within Trusty
(chkrootkit-0.49) reports false positives within the base install of Ubuntu
because of some overly simple tests within the upstream code. However, this
behavior is corrected upstream in chkrootkit-0.50 (which is currently available
in all later major versions of Ubuntu). As the incorrect behavior is explicitly
corrected in chkrootkit-0.50, it does not seem appropriate to correct this
behavior by making an Ubuntu-specific change to chkrootkit-0.49. However, as
this package is both security related and as this update would have a practical
effect more like updating a definition file rather than like adding new major
features, it seems appropriate to make this backport available to 14.04 LTS
even though 16.04 LTS will be available within months.
Testing:
========
Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the
checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.
You can test-build the backport in your PPA with backportpackage:
$ backportpackage -u ppa:<lp username>/<ppa name> -s xenial -d trusty chkrootkit
* trusty:
[X] Package builds without modification
[ ] chkrootkit-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs
[X] chkrootkit installs cleanly and runs
Reverse dependencies:
=====================
The following reverse-dependencies need to be tested against the new version of
chkrootkit. For reverse-build-dependencies (-Indep), please test that the
package still builds against the new chkrootkit. For reverse-dependencies,
please test that the version of the package currently in the release still
works with the new chkrootkit installed. Reverse- Recommends, Suggests, and
Enhances don't need to be tested, and are listed for completeness-sake.
chkrootkit
----------
* tiger
[ ] trusty (Reverse-Recommends)
chkrootkit-dbgsym
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** Affects: trusty-backports
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Please backport chkrootkit 0.50-3.2 (universe) from xenial
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