On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:28:03 +0530, Abhijith PA <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/01/26 07:24 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:06:43 +0530, Abhijith PA <[email protected]>
> > wrote:  
> > > On 09/01/26 06:00 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote:  
> > > > Version: 2.8-1
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Adi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 16:35:05 +0100, Adi Kriegisch <[email protected]>
> > > > wrote:    
> > > > > a recent security upgrade for bullseye (version 2.5-4~deb11u1)
> > > > > backported the issue to bullseye as well. All versions above 2.5 do
> > > > > have the issue fixed; I'm trying to tag the issue accordingly.    
> > > > 
> > > > That’s unfortunate — Abhijith, the security update in bullseye broke
> > > > the package in a few important use-cases...    
> > > 
> > > Thanks for reporting. That's indeed unfortunate, I released
> > > 2.5-4~deb11u1 in bullseye. Can you let me know more about the
> > > regression. I gone through bug report and I see that you are
> > > going to make a release via backports.debian.org. I am happy to 
> > > backport it to bullseye|oldoldstable.  
> > 
> > I don’t have more info than what’s already in the bug report; the upstream
> > release notes only say “fixed numerous bugs” in relation to this and I
> > never found any corresponding bug in the upstream tracker.  
> 
> ACK. So just to be clear, version 2.5-4~deb11u1 doesn't made in
> regression but backported to a buggy version 2.5 from 2.1. ? 

I’m not sure what you mean, sorry.

> > I’m not *going* to make a release via backports.debian.org, I did so in
> > August 2024, backporting version 2.9. Feel free to backport that to
> > bullseye, I think that’s best.  
> 
> OK. I can't backport 2.9 to bullseye as bookworm is in 2.5 . I think
> we have to do an Old Stable Proposed Update for bookworm first and the
> update same in bullseye. I guess we have to let stable release
> managers know about the situation.

Another option is to use the same technique as Tobias Frost with version
2.0+really2.5-4+deb10u1...

Regards,

Stephen

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