Re: [Fedora Update] [stable] fakeroot-1.11-19.fc8
2008/12/21 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com>:
Why is there a major version change (1.9.7 -> 1.11.19) going
directly
into stable on F8 (which has days to live) without any information for
users what so ever that this update is providing. Please provide some
details for users and reconsider if this update is really suitable for
F8.
I won't speak for Axel, and I'm not sure about F8 criteria - the pkgs
were put in updates-testing months ago. The old fakeroot has a nasty
race condition that leads to dataloss. The delta is a pileup of fixes,
no new features to speak of.
For some background, we had a good thread on this list - which I opened with
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
Fedora 7, 8 and 9 are shipping a version of fakeroot that is affected
by a somewhat nasty race condition.
The bug was characterised here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381016 , and with
trivial repo steps here
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446351 . This bug was
fixed in 1.8.2 - F7,8,9 ship 1.6.4.
Hopefully, F9/F8 can get an updated version of the package included.
Help and pointers welcome :-) If that's not possible, I will prepare a
package for the school server and offer it here.
cheers,
m
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