Bug#739251: iptables: Upgrade breaks existing rules (and is not documented)

Package: iptables Version: 1.4.14-3.1 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@security.debian.org, secure-testing-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org After a squeeze -> wheezy upgrade, iptables refuses to load rules that worked in squeeze and were generated usi

Bug#738694: grep: Behavior of --exclude-dir has changed

Package: grep Version: 2.12-2 Severity: normal The behavior of --exclude-dir changed between squeeze (2.6.3-3+squeeze1) and wheezy (2.12-2). The new behavior is present in the current unstable version as well (2.16-1). A test script is attached. Tests 4,6,7,8,11,12 produce different results bet

Bug#656326: init.d: Also wait for daemon to stop

Another change is to wait for the daemon to stop before trying to start it again when using 'restart': do_stop() { start-stop-daemon --stop --retry 30 --quiet --oknodo --user sphinxsearch --pidfile $PIDFILE \ --exec $DAEMON } In my case 30 seconds was too low, but that seems