SRU for pango-graphite in Lucid

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 3 16:12:52 UTC 2012


Hi Martin,

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:24:10PM +0200, Martin Erik Werner wrote:
> Alternatively it would work to only grab the code changes as a patch,
> and skip the rest, possibly this would better fit SRU policy...
> 
> Debian stable carries the exact code this change would result in
> (whereas later versions of Ubuntu & Debian carries additional patches on
> top), so presumably it is reasonably tested.
> 
> The full upstream diff and the reduced version containing only the code
> changes are attached to the bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango-graphite/+bug/540035/+attachment/3201822/+files/pango-graphite-0.9.2-to-0.9.3.diff
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pango-graphite/+bug/540035/+attachment/1424192/+files/u01_crasher-fix.patch

It seems like just fixing the bug would be easier to get the SRU team
to agree to. Please use that and follow the regular SRU process. There
doesn't seem to be a pressing reason to do a version bump.

Thanks,

-Kees

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Kees Cook



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