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Is there time to get an updated audit package into wheezy?

June 19th, 2012 - 05:40 pm ET by Andrew Pollock | Report spam
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Hi,

The audit package in wheezy is quite old, and it seems like the maintainer
hasn't had time to update it lately[1]. There's some additional functionality
in the latest version that I'd like to see available in wheezy, and future
releases of Ubuntu.

I'm wondering if there's still time to update it (properly) before wheezy
freezes? It looks like it would involve a small library transition.

Assuming I get the maintainer's blessing to make such an upload, what say
the release managers?

I believe this has been tried once before by an NMUer, and went horribly
wrong. If I understand correctly, this is because they didn't take the
library transition into consideration. I won't make that mistake :-)

regards

Andrew

[1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...ugc9865#27





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#1 Cyril Brulebois
June 19th, 2012 - 09:50 pm ET | Report spam

Hello Andrew.

Andrew Pollock (19/06/2012):
I'm wondering if there's still time to update it (properly) before wheezy
freezes? It looks like it would involve a small library transition.

Assuming I get the maintainer's blessing to make such an upload, what say
the release managers?



This is horribly late. And knowing about the details would be a must at
this point anyway (… but well, yes, we remember the libaudit fiasco).

I believe this has been tried once before by an NMUer, and went horribly
wrong. If I understand correctly, this is because they didn't take the
library transition into consideration. I won't make that mistake :-)



As {a,the} maintainer of the X server, I wouldn't enjoy having to deal
with possible audit-related breakages when trying to polish the X server
and the X drivers for wheezy.

All in all, I think “far too late” is likely to be everyone's answer.
See last paragraph of:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-dev...00004.html

And it's been repeatedly announced we would likely freeze in June…

Mraw,
KiBi.





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