On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 13:23:48 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 2016-01-13 11:16, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > >We're working on a fix for #810799 which is a regression in Debian > >stable triggered by the recent perl DSA (it will also be triggered by > >the point release update in #809561). > > > >This should be fixed in jessie, and given the timescale, and the fact > >that it's not technically a regression in the DSA package, the consensus > >seems to be that a point release update is appropriate. > > > >There is a patch under review in the bug report and so hopefully we will > >be able to supply an updated package (for sid as well as jessie) by the > >weekend. It would be useful to know if you have a precise cutoff for > >uploads, given the short timescale for packaging and testing this fix. > > The cut-off is intentionally fluffy, because it allows us some flexibility > to evaluate how many confirmed uploads are still pending, whether any of the > non-uploaded packages are particularly urgent, when team members are > available to process any remaining uploads, and so on. It's also a little > easier to be flexible about a case where there are no arch:any binaries > involved, as there's no risk of a FTBFS on a particular architecture, or any > buildd availability issues. > > Please keep us updated on progress, but this sounds like it shouldn't be an > issue in practice. > And if it's not ready in time for 8.3, jessie-updates or jessie-security can still be used.
Cheers, Julien
