ImageMagick - [Fedora Update] [comment] xine-lib-1.1.20.1-3.fc17, emacs-24.0.94-3.fc17, calibre-0.8.42-1.fc17, perl-GD-SecurityImage-1.71-3.fc17, techne-0.2.1-4.fc17, gdl-0.9.2-5.fc17, autotrace-0.31.1-29.fc17.1, ImageMagick-6.7.5.6-3.fc17

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:57:14 +0200, CF (Christophe) wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 07:27:31AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Suggestions?  I'm tempted to pushed this to stable so that broken
> > deps emails start going out to get people to do the needed rebuilds.
> > 
> > Or perhaps someone in releng can for the needed buildroot overrides?
> > 
> > Or perhaps we drop the whole endeavor?
> 
> I'd lean towards this, why do we need to push a soname bump of ImageMagick
> so late in the game when f17 is already in beta? If there's a critical bug
> in the f17 package, isn't it possible to backport the fix instead of
> forcing these rebuilds?

There are several CVEs. As whether the fixes for them could be backported,
well, somebody would need to investigate and do it.