Control: reassign 934314 src:emacs 1:26.1+1-3.2
Control: forcemerge 922659 934314
Control: severity 922659 important

On August 9, 2019 at 8:32AM -0700, ian (at retrospec.tv) wrote:
> Known workarounds involve disabling GnuTLS support or TLS 1.3, both of which 
> are inadvisable from a security perspective.
> 
> This is a grave bug because it breaks Emacs’ built-in package manager 
> installing packages from the default GNU repository, which can prevent Emacs 
> from working.

Workarounds are known and most features are usable, so downgrading
the severity from grave to important.

> Upstream commit e87e6a24c4 contains the fix, which should get backported to 
> buster due to the bug severity.

Instead, a small patch is available in the emacs-26 branch:

  - 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=202ff53da267f9fa15f438e9c38603bbead6e890

Anyway, this bug will be fixed in the Emacs 26.3 release.

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita

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