Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 13:06 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > we'd like to make a stable upload for policykit-1 in the upcoming jessie > point release. > > The policykit-1 package didn't have a new upstream release in sid, but > we backported a lot of fixes from newer upstream versions, including > quite a few CVEs and important memory leak fixes [1]. > The policykit-1 package in sid is in a much better shape then what we > have in jessie. > > We therefor think it's best to simply upload the current package from > sid, which has been cooking for a very long time, as is to stable. > > I know the debdiff is large but I think the vast majority of the changes > are stable material and it's simply unfeasible to create and test yet > another stack of patches. I would therefor urge you to consider to > accept the attached debdiff.
Assuming that the resulting package has been tested on jessie, under the circumstances I'm prepared to trust your judgement. Please go ahead. Regards, Adam
