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[address@concealed (Janusz S. Bień)]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008  Thomas Viehmann <address@concealed> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> sympa has two RC bugs open for about one month, #496520 about insecure
> usage of tmp (which looks at least partially fixed upstream, but has no
> maintainer response) and #498144 about problems on upgrade (with an
> initial maintainer response "will investigate, also happened to people
> at the last security upgrades", but no visible activity since).
>
> Unless the maintainer (or perhaps Olivier who forwarded the first bug
> upstream, CCed) resolve these bugs soon, it might be better to not
> release sympa with lenny.
> It does not seem to have reverse dependencies. There are a few users
> (double digit popcon), but not exceedingly many.

I'm a dedicated user of sympa and hope that the problems will be
resolved. It is a really good piece of software and it would be a pity
to remove it from lenny.

Best regards

Janusz

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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW -  Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra 
Lingwistyki Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bien - Warsaw University (Department of Formal Linguistics)
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