Opened 5 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#13701 closed enhancement (fixed)

popt moved to github and new release 1.18 preparing

Reported by: Pierre Labastie Owned by: Pierre Labastie
Priority: normal Milestone: 10.0
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

See ​http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2020-May/000077.html

and ​http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-support/2020-June/082058.html

Change History (8)

comment:1 by Pierre Labastie, 5 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book to Pierre Labastie
Status: new → assigned

Will put the new url in the book, and also make an errata entry.

comment:2 by Pierre Labastie, 5 years ago

Summary: popt moved to github and new release in the pipeline → popt moved to github and new release 1.18 preparing

Errata entry at r1574. New version at r23312. Leaving open as hold.

comment:3 by Pierre Labastie, 5 years ago

Milestone: 9.2 → hold

comment:4 by Pierre Labastie, 5 years ago

1.18 released: ​http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2020-June/000079.html 

Changes from popt 1.16

    fix an ugly and ancient security issue with popt failing to drop privileges on alias exec from a SUID/SGID program
    perform rudimentary sanity checks when reading in popt config files
    collect accumulated misc fixes (memleaks etc) from distros
    convert translations to utf-8 encoding
    convert old postscript documentation to pdf
    dust off ten years worth of autotools sediment
    reorganize and clean up the source tree for clarity
    remove the obnoxious splint annotations from the sources

comment:5 by Pierre Labastie, 5 years ago

Milestone: hold → 9.2

comment:6 by Pierre Labastie, 5 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: assigned → closed

Fixed at r23325

comment:7 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Milestone: 9.2 → 10,0

Milestone renamed

comment:8 by Bruce Dubbs, 5 years ago

Milestone: 10,0 → 10.0

Milestone renamed

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