Bug#344029: Bug #344029: Patch to fix this security bug

[Don Armstrong]

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:27:48AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Attached is the patch for the NMU that I am preparing; I will upload
> > it to a delay queue sometime tomorrow (assuming it checks out when
> > I've had more sleep.)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> and thanks for the patch.
> 
> FWIW, we discussed this package a bit on the Debian Perl list (see the
> thread at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2005/12/msg00033.html>),
> and the consensus was that is should be removed. It's officially
> unsupported upstream, and the author recommends Email::Filter
> (currently in NEW) as a replacement. I'm going to file a removal
> request once libemail-filter-perl gets in.

The important issue is that we've made a stable release with the
package, and so the (albiet not so serious) security bug needs to be
fixed, even if we end up removing it from unstable and testing. [Which
I would recommend, given the rather lackluster quality of the code in
that module.]


Don Armstrong

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