On 12 March 2017 at 15:48, Markus Koschany wrote: | Hello dear maintainer(s), | | the Debian LTS team would like to fix the security issues which are | currently open in the Wheezy version of r-base: | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8714 | | Would you like to take care of this yourself? | | If yes, please follow the workflow we have defined here: | https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development | | If that workflow is a burden to you, feel free to just prepare an | updated source package and send it to [email protected] | (via a debdiff, or with an URL pointing to the source package, | or even with a pointer to your packaging repository), and the members | of the LTS team will take care of the rest. Indicate clearly whether you | have tested the updated package or not. | | If you don't want to take care of this update, it's not a problem, we | will do our best with your package. Just let us know whether you would | like to review and/or test the updated package before it gets released. | | You can also opt-out from receiving future similar emails in your | answer and then the LTS Team will take care of r-base updates | for the LTS releases.
I can probably help as I was / am already in contact with Moritz from the security team. (But I was also traveling for a family matter and had the misfortune of seeing my server go off-grid. Back now.) Dirk | Thank you very much. | | Markus Koschany, | on behalf of the Debian LTS team. | | PS: A member of the LTS team might start working on this update at | any point in time. You can verify whether someone is registered | on this update in this file: | https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/secure-testing/data/dla-needed.txt?view=markup -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
