[php-maint] update to 5.3 in stable

[Ondřej Surý]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 22:27, Lior Kaplan <kaplanlior at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 22:07, Lior Kaplan <kaplanlior at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > We have two issues which we can solve easily by taking fixes from
>> > upstream
>> > an upload to proposed updates:
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617233
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628509
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>>
>> As none of it is security issue, you would have to speak with stable
>> release team about the updates. How big are the patches (diffstat?).
>
>
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=303016
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=306278

Prepare this in the debian-squeeze branch, I'll try to squeeze it in
in next batch of security uploads.

>> > Also, I though of providing a 5.3.10 as a backport, before we'll
>> > introduce 5.4 to unstable.
>>
>> That would be nightmare security-wise. There is are rule: package has
>> to be in testing to go to backports, you would have to provide
>> security for backported package. And I guess you don't want that as
>> much as I do :).
>
>
> I think you're wrong about having to support these packages security wise...
> (at least the backport itself, the packages in testing is something else).

http://backports-master.debian.org/Contribute/#index3h2

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>