Proventester karma needed for libtalloc-2.0.6-1.fc15 [CRITPATH]

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Tue Aug 30 19:41:19 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 12:20 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 07:43 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libtalloc-2.0.6-1.fc15
> > 
> > This CRITPATH package has been in update-testing for 20 days without any
> > karma. The same package went to stable in F16 a week ago with karma
> > automatism.
> > 
> > If you use Samba, SSSD, openchange, certmonger, evolution-mapi or
> > notmuch, please verify that these programs are not experiencing
> > unexpected behaviors. Libtalloc is the memory allocator used for each of
> > these applications, so bugs in libtalloc would result in highly-visible
> > new bugs in the consumers.
> 
> Is a simple CIFS mount exercising libtalloc? I wasn't sure about that,
> so I didn't file any karma yet. I have a CIFS share from my NAS box
> mounted on my F16 system and that's working fine, but I wasn't sure if
> that's enough of a use case to +1 the update.

Yes, everything in Samba uses talloc for memory allocation.


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