Package: lm-sensors
Version: 1:3.3.2-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

As reported on lm-sensors.org I quote:

"September 5th, 2013: Hardware breakage reported Over the past few months, we
had several reports of sensors-detect causing serious trouble on recent
hardware (most notably laptops.) We still don't know what exactly is happening,
and while it might be reversible, we don't know how, so in practice this is
equivalent to the hardware itself being broken. The symptoms are that the
display starts misbehaving ( wrong resolution or wrong gamma factor.) We have
mitigated the risk by changing the default behavior of sensors-detect to no
longer touch EDID EEPROMs and then to no longer probe graphics adapters at all
unless the user asks for it. We urge maintainers to backport changesets r6040
and r6084 to all Linux distributions which are still shipping lm-sensors 3.3.2
or older. Versions 3.3.3 and newer are not affected."

Debian stable (wheezy) is using 3.3.2, I haven't personally experienced any
issues but I think it's important enough and should be looked into.

Claudio



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lm-sensors depends on:
ii  libc6        2.13-38
ii  libsensors4  1:3.3.2-2
ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  perl         5.14.2-21
ii  sed          4.2.1-10

lm-sensors recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lm-sensors suggests:
pn  fancontrol  <none>
pn  i2c-tools   <none>
pn  read-edid   <none>
pn  sensord     <none>

-- no debconf information


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