Hi Steve, On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 10:20 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > We'd like to push an update into the last stretch point release for > fwupd. The last version in stretch (0.7.4-2) is now considered so old > that it's (a) not really functional any more, and (b) no longer > supported by upstream. There are also security worries > (CVE-2020-10759) with this version. We've discussed this with the > security team (in CC) and they're keen to see this addressed, but > maybe via the PU process before it hits LTS. > > To fix all this, we'd like to switch to a supported stable release > branch as supported by upstream (0.8.x); Mario, the primary > maintainer in Debian, is also part of the upstream development team > and has been working to maintain that. Apparently Ubuntu and other > distros have switched to this already.
ACK. > This *does* mean that the debdiff is *way* too large to fit in mail, > sorry. :-( I've put a copy up at > > https://www.einval.com/~steve/debian/fwupd_0.8.3-1_amd64.debdiff.gz > > for reference. Could we have a binary debdiff, please? That's potentially more interesting to look at right now, particularly with the packaging changes. Regards, Adam
