Dear Jamil,
Jamil Said Jr. wrote:
> I read your email and my understanding is that only the unstable version
> 5.34 and beyond will be fixed? What about the stable version 5.30?
That's next.
If bugs are not security issues, they always should be fixed first in
unstable, bascially as a proof that the fix works. The Stable Release
Managers usually won't accept uploads to stable-proposed-updates or
stable-updates, if the accordings bugs are not already fixed in
unstable.
It's a little bit more difficult in this case as the bug is still
dormant on unstable. But the code for it is definitely there and so
there's something to fix there, too.
Actually Tormod wanted to fix stable first as the issue is more
"urgent" there and I (as the one who was asked to sign/sponsor the
upload) insisted on fixing it in unstable first.
You can verify that the fix works on unstable (where the message is
not yet triggered if the time in you computer is correct) by comparing
the behaviour of 5.34-1 and 5.34-2 with the following command:
faketime -f "+2y" xscreensaver-command -prefs
With 5.34-1 you get an additional popup, with 5.34-2 you no more get
it.
The faketime command is part of the faketime package, so you might
need to install that first.
Regards, Axel
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