Ben Hildred writes ("Bug#811216: chiark-utils-bin: old crypto dependency"):
...
> >From the description:
> summer and watershed require the installation of the Recommended crypto
> libraries;
>
> the recommended crypto libraries are libgmp10 (which does not appear
> th have any issues) and libnettle4 which is outdated and has known
> issues. A binnmu may resolve the issues completely for the moment,
> but the better long term solution would be to repackage summer and
> watershed into a septate package with real dependencies.
Thanks for the report.
I don't think a package split is warranted. I would welcome a binnmu.
You've tagged this bug `security'. Do you know that summer and/or
watershed are affected by any of the `known issues' you refer to ?
Thanks,
Ian.
