[Secure-testing-team] Broken testing propagation for some packages?

Joey Hess
2006-03-13T12:28:10Z

Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> I was having a look at the state of applications in testing using
> the vulnerable XMLRPC code, for which an easily usable exploit has
> been published and which seems like a perfect worm candidate as it
> affects a wide range of popular web apps.
>
> For testing is affects drupal and wordpress, which both have been
> fixed. But there propagation seems blocked, because britney thinks
> that there is no version in testing, which is wrong as both _are_
> present in current testing:
>
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=wordpress:
> Checking wordpress
>
>      * trying to update [1]wordpress from 1.5.1.2-1 to 1.5.1.3-1
>      * wordpress [2]is only in unstable (no testing version)
>
> Checking drupal
>
>      * trying to update [1]drupal from 4.5.3-2 to 4.5.4-1
>      * drupal [2]is only in unstable (no testing version)
>
> What''s wrong? Is this a known problem?

Yes, the testing propigation scripts have been down for several days.
I''m told it has something to do with the pending move of newraff to a
different ISP.

This would probably be a great time to put up a repository and begin
doing some advisories.

--
see shy jo
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