Matthew Johnson wrote: > Hi guys, I'm looking to come up with a plan for DBus in Lenny. The > relevant bug is #508032. > > A quick synopsis of the problem is that until recently DBus was shipped > with a default configuration on the system bus which allowed more > message than was intended. 1.2.10 fixes this but unfortunately it breaks > numerous other bits of software which relied on this (mainly > introspection). There is also a 'permissive' release which merely logs > when there would be a problem but still lets them through. It does not > actually fix the problem, however. > > If we do want to fix the problem properly then all the packages which > rely on the broken behaviour will also need to be fixed. This should be > as simple as just adding a few lines to their system bus config files. > I've attached a list of packages which would be affected. The shorter > list (*-files*, also has a list of versions in lenny and sid and > migration excuses. Sorry if there's a better way to do that than I've > found!) is those packages which already drop a file in > /etc/dbus-1/system.d, which should be everything. There is a small > possibility that there is a package which does not currently have a > config file but which should. The longer list is rdepends of > libdbus-1-3, it will definitely not be anything not on this list. > > Opinions?
Please start preparing things in unstable, so we can have a further idea of the impact and how to solve the remaining bits, TIA. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
