Re: Confusing our users - who is supporting LTS?

2018-10-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:15 AM Sean Whitton wrote: > > On Tue 23 Oct 2018 at 05:06PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > > > > In short: Make it very clear if you want to provide long-term support > > for your project. Talk to the LTS team in case you need help. Nobody is > > forced to do anything. >

Re: Bug#911709: tomcat7: Security update broke apps with AccessControlException for org.apache.tomcat.util.http

2018-10-23 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello, Am 23.10.18 um 21:20 schrieb Anthony DeRobertis: > Package: tomcat7 > Version: 7.0.56-3+really7.0.91-1 > Severity: important > > After applying the recent security update, the web app we're running > (which is unfortunately a proprietary product provided by a vendor) no > longer works.

Bug#911709: tomcat7: Security update broke apps with AccessControlException for org.apache.tomcat.util.http

2018-10-23 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Package: tomcat7 Version: 7.0.56-3+really7.0.91-1 Severity: important After applying the recent security update, the web app we're running (which is unfortunately a proprietary product provided by a vendor) no longer works. Instead, I get an exception and a blank page. Interestingly, in

Re: backported gnutls28 3.3.30 packages availabled for jessie LTS

2018-10-23 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2018-10-23 19:26:32, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 14:00 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> Hi, >> >> After the lengthy discussion[1] regarding the pending security issues in >> GnuTLS (CVE-2018-10844, CVE-2018-10845, CVE-2018-10846), I have >> determined it might be simpler to

Re: backported gnutls28 3.3.30 packages availabled for jessie LTS

2018-10-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 14:00 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Hi, > > After the lengthy discussion[1] regarding the pending security issues in > GnuTLS (CVE-2018-10844, CVE-2018-10845, CVE-2018-10846), I have > determined it might be simpler to just upgrade to the latest upstream > 3.3.x version

Re: backported gnutls28 3.3.30 packages availabled for jessie LTS

2018-10-23 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Ah, and I pushed my changes here: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/gnutls/tree/gnutls28_jessie_3.3.30+ A. -- We should act only in such away that if everyone else acted as we do, we would accept the results. - Emmanuel Kant

backported gnutls28 3.3.30 packages availabled for jessie LTS

2018-10-23 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Hi, After the lengthy discussion[1] regarding the pending security issues in GnuTLS (CVE-2018-10844, CVE-2018-10845, CVE-2018-10846), I have determined it might be simpler to just upgrade to the latest upstream 3.3.x version for which upstream is still providing updates. Upstream agrees with the

Re: Confusing our users - who is supporting LTS?

2018-10-23 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Hi Steve! On 2018-10-23 04:26:18, Steve McIntyre wrote: > So I'm worried that those of us who have *not* volunteered to support > LTS are being pressured into spending our time on it anyway. What can > we do to fix that? How/where do we clarify for our users (and > developers!) what LTS means,

Re: Confusing our users - who is supporting LTS?

2018-10-23 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Raphael, On Tue 23 Oct 2018 at 09:52AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Instead we are rather aiming to integrate LTS more and more everywhere. > However, when LTS is becoming a burden on other teams, we should > definitely look how the LTS team can help to alleviate that burden. > Because

Xen 4.4 updates - request for feedback

2018-10-23 Thread Peter Dreuw
Hello, everyone, I prepared another set of fixes based on the current Xen package on jessie-security (4.4.4lts2-0+deb8u1, DLA-1549). These fixes include CVE-2017-15595 / xsa 240 CVE-2017-15593 / xsa 242 CVE-2017-15592 / xsa 243 CVE-2017-16693 / xsa 244 CVE-2017-17044 / xsa 246

Re: Confusing our users - who is supporting LTS?

2018-10-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Steve, On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: > So I'm worried that those of us who have *not* volunteered to support > LTS are being pressured into spending our time on it anyway. What can > we do to fix that? How/where do we clarify for our users (and > developers!) what LTS means, and