Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.34.0-rc2

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 01:15:52AM -0800, Carlo Arenas wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:22 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:11:12AM -0800, Carlo Arenas wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 10:02 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >   - we're not really testing the desired behavior, just looking for a
> > > >     known-problem. The segfault may get fixed but we'd still have other
> > > >     bugs.
> > >
> > > This openssh bug was fixed in 8.8 per the release notes; indeed the
> > > fix[1] (which was misapplied but fixed next commit) looks familiar and
> > > it is just a straight up crasher, hence unlikely to cause other
> > > issues.
> >
> > Ah, thanks for digging. I agree that this is a small isolated bug, so
> > the prereq check I showed would be a good test for it.
> >
> > IMHO it's worth doing. It looks like 8.7 is the only affected openssh
> > version, but it is likely to cause confusion right when we release.
> 
> It was discussed[1] before, and I think the plan was to at least
> mention the brokenness with 8.7 in the release notes, but guess I
> dropped the ball by not raising it earlier.

Ah, thanks. I looked in the archive, but assumed any mention would have
been more recent (not realizing that Debian's packaging was simply
lagging the upstream releases by quite a bit).

-Peff