Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock jessie-pu
Opening a bug report since that's way more likely to be handled in this way. On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 02:00:45PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello release team, > > Christian Kastner discovered that when using vmdebootstrap with > autopkgtest's "VM setup" script it erroneously enables dpkg's > "force-unsafe-io" option on the host instead of the guest. This can > lead to potential system damage and thus should qualify as RC: > > https://bugs.debian.org/775076 > > This is fixed in version 3.9.3 in unstable now, including a postinst > cleanup for cleaning up an erroneously created > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/autopkgtest on the host. > > At the time when testing froze, testing had 3.6, and unstable's 3.7 > (with a lot of changes) was one day short of propagating to testing; > so as these were already out of sync, I just kept on uploading to > unstable as that's what most people use for development. So I prepared > a debdiff for testing-proposed-updates at > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=34;filename=autopkgtest.775076.jessie.debdiff;att=1;bug=775076 > > autopkgtest is mostly a Debian/Ubuntu developer, QA, and continuous > integration tool, so honestly the testing version isn't that > interesting any more. So if you prefer, I'd be perfectly okay (and > in fact happier) with getting 3.9.3 into testing instead; it has a lot > of new features, but also a lot of bug fixes: > > https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/tmp/autopkgtest_3.6_3.9.3.debdiff > > It's clearly waaaay outside the current freeze rules, but as it's not > an end user tool but rather an internal QA one, I want to at least > consider it. If we want to go that route, I'm happy to provide more > details. > > Thank you and have a nice Sunday! > > Martin > > -- > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>
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