[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS 3.5.7 - any patches should I pick for Debian/stretch release?

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Sun Jan 8 10:28:43 CET 2017


On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Debian/stretch will soon be frozen. Starting February 5 automatic
> migration from debian/unstable to sid is stopped and updates of packages
> require approval by release managers. i.e. to enter jessie before this
> deadline I will need to upload before about January 25.
>
> We currently have 3.5.7 plus PKCS#8-encrypted key decoding bugfix
> (e62aaf4bfaf1a4280db23d9729c2d7fa0fdf97e5 and
> 441d87cdd5548dc03765cc40c3ffc15eb722b474). Are there other severe issues
> already fixed in GIT that I should cherrypick? the 3.5.x branch has
> loads of changes after 3.5.7 and afact only one of these is a feature
> addition (-with-default-priority-string) but I would rather not ship a
> GIT snapshot in Debian/stable. ;-)

Hi,
 My goal is to make a 3.5.x release the next few days, which will be
the first marked as stable 3.5.x release. I'd suggest to go with it
(or if not possible to get all changes from gnutls_3_5_x branch).


regards,
Nikos



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