[pkg-cinnamon] Cinnamon screensaver security issue

[Maximiliano Curia]

¡Hola László!

El 2014-05-15 a las 12:05 +0200, László Böszörményi (GCS) escribió:
> Any plan, ETA of uploading Cinnamon to Sid? There's a local security
> bug in its screensaver, got the CVE-2014-1949 id[1][2]. Upstream
> bugreport[3] reveals that the fix is under progress. As Clement
> Lefebvre noted some days ago, "We fixed something that could relate to
> this today. Please re-test with git-latest, it could potentially fix
> this problem.".

There is no ETA. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to upload
cinnamon-screensaver to unstable at all, it shouldn't be too hard to replace it
with xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver. We could probably delay the upload til
the issue gets fixed.

> It would be nice to upload Cinnamon to Sid for further testing by the
> users. While ironing out any remainder problems, upload the security
> fix as soon as available.

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