Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's been a while since the last release, and mainly thanks to the great > work by Russ Allbery, we've got a >80-line changelog entry atm and a > mere 18 bugs fixed. I've rolled and installed the current svn (which now > passes its own testsuite again), and would like to see an upload happen > sometime in the near future. Widespread testing will only seriously > happen anyway after upload to unstable, but a bit of testing by people > on this list would be neat.
> So, please stresstest current svn a bit, and in case there's no serious > problems found, we should upload the package. We can't fix all bugs at > once after all. > Russ, feel free to change the first line in the changelog entry if it > bothers you, I'm feeling low on entropy^Winspiration a.t.m. to write > something seriously witty. Sounds fine to me. :) The only additional thing that I think would be cool to get into this release is the patch attached to the bug log for Bug#344269. Most of that patch is just adding test cases for a bunch of weird "rexec under Perl" conventions that have been seen in the wild and a fairly uncontroversial change to catch the rest of these in the script_is_evil_and_wrong check. The only controversial part is that the patch also bypasses the check for #! or ELF magic if the script passes script_is_evil_and_wrong, which is required for one of the magic entry points that Frank discovered and which apparently doesn't work if you put #!/bin/sh in front of it. It only works if the binary has no magic and therefore forces the kernel /bin/sh fallback. I'm not sure if we want to pass in lintian scripts that require that, although I believe it does work everywhere (although I'm not positive about the Hurd). I have an idea on how to solve Bug#344266 in a more thorough fashion, but that can wait for the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
