On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:37:29PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> As I understand it, these files are not usually executed directly, but do 
> serve as templates for scripts that are executed, so someone could edit their 
> content and hope that an administrator copies the script without noticing the 
> change. That seems reason enough for me for a stable security update.

Yes, they are copied by 'git init', and need to be activated manually
through chmod +x by the repository owner.

> We need a sourceful update to prevent the problem from reappearing if someone 
> rebuilds the package themselves or a subsequent security upload is made. Your 
> patch seems fine. The issue also affects oldstable.

> Gerrit, it would be great if you could provide updated packages for 
> stable-security and oldstable-security. Please upload them to 
> security-master, and make sure you build with full source ("-sa") at least 
> for the stable-security one.

Ok.  I not yet understand why we need a sourceful upload.  Doesn't this
require bumping the upstream version (version of the orig.tar.gz)?  And
if so, why is this necessary?

Regards, Gerrit.



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