Debian squeeze (6.0) LTS development
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Report Bugs
Please report bugs that you found in the packages to the debian-lts mailinglist
Preparing fixed packages for squeeze-lts
Claim the issue in lts-needed.txt
In order to prevent duplication of effort, make sure the issue is listed in lts-needed.txt and add your name to it.
Building the update
Backport the fix to the version in squeeze or squeeze-lts (in case there's already been an earlier update). You need to set the target distribution in debian/changelog to "squeeze-lts". The versioning follows the conventions already used in security.debian.org. Historically codenames have been used as version numbers, but this was changed some time ago as version numbers are more deterministic.
- If a package already e.g. had a +squeeze1 update, use +squeeze2 for the next update.
- If a package hasn't seen an update, use +deb6u1 for the next update.
Now build the package and run your tests. You can generate a debdiff and post it to debian-lts@lists.debian.org for review.
Now test the fixed package. If you're satisfied, upload to ftp-master. If you use dput-ng, you need to apply the patch from 745806. After that "dput CHANGES file" is sufficient. Once uploaded the package will be auto-built for amd64 or i386 (if it's an arch:any package).
Announcing the update
Now that the update has been released, send a mail to the debian-lts-announce mailing list. The mail needs to be signed by a PGP key in the debian.org or debian-maintainers keyring. Both PGP/MIME and inline signatures should be fine.
Package : SOURCEPACKAGENAME Version : VERSIONOFFIX CVE ID : CVE-2014-0001 CVE-2014-0002 Brief description of the issue. This can usually be copied from the DSA.
Recording the fix in the Debian Security Tracker
Finally the fix needs to be tracked in the Debian Security Tracker by adding a [squeeze] version tag, e.g. for GNUTLS:
CVE-2014-3466 RESERVED {DSA-2944-1} - gnutls26 2.12.23-16 - gnutls28 3.2.15-1 [squeeze] - gnutls26 2.8.6-1+squeeze4