tags 685324 + moreinfo unreproducible tags 685323 + moreinfo unreproducible merge 685324 685323 severity 685326 wishlist merge 685326 584251 thanks
Hi, Were these reports of security issues supposed to be genuine? Or was this simply your "idea on how to get them to update GeSHi". [1] You refer to vulnerabilities in unspecified "contrib" scripts, but it seems to me that Debian does not even ship them in the php-geshi package. "Debian who STILL believes the most recent version is 1.0.8.4", actually identifies the latest version as 1.0.8.10 on the PTS [2], with a link to the source tarball, and that will surely update within a few hours to indicate the new 1.0.8.11 release. Yes, you already filed a wishlist bug asking for someone to package the new version, so there was no reason to file a new 'serious'-severity duplicate just now demanding the same. It seems to me you are in fact wasting the time of whoever would potentially package your software, of developers busy fixing serious issues to make the next Debian release happen, and of the security team, who would be kindly looking after users for the package's 2-3 year term in stable/oldstable. Some users really prefer long-term, unchanging versions, because they deploy lots of software that they don't want to have to review for what's changed, update it, re-test and check compatibility on a regular basis. Debian's stable distribution fulfills that need. The freeze deadline has already passed, for someone to have _volunteered_ to update the GeSHi package in time for the Wheezy release process. The only exception now might be for a genuine security fix or serious flaw (which would probably be only a minimal patch for the specific issue), It is possible for more frequent updates to be packaged in testing or backports, for example to support new programming languages, but it would require continued effort on the part of a volunteer maintainer. That person would have had to process your bug reports too. [1] http://blog.benny-baumann.de/?p=1297 [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/geshi.html Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
