Re: [Nano-devel] New prerelease for security tweaks

[Chris Allegretta]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Jordi Mallach <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:25:43AM -0400, Chris Allegretta wrote:
>> As you're a downstream maintainer, if you or Mike or another
>> maintainer are stongly in favor of an official release sooner rather
>> than later, with the caveat that we'll be missing one translated
>> string fromt the release, I'm fine with it.  This isn't the type of
>> string that anyone is going to see normally anyway.
>
> Not at all. I think the (normal) schedule you proposed is more than ok.
> I'll try to get the fix in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS though. There's no urgency
> for Debian right now. :)

Alright, Dan (the fine gentleman who found these issues) sent me a
patch with a better fix for the backup file code, which I was able to
work into something that no longer requires the strings to change.

I put up a new test tarball using those fixes at
http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/test/nano-2.2.4pre3.tar.gz if anyone
is interested in testing it out.  I'm going to eat my own dog food
with this version over the weekend and then will consider a release.

Also I want to make sure I'm trying to fix the issues that Mike has
been finding, where some of these fixes introduce problems with basic
functionality (e.g. being unable to write a new buffer to a new
filename).  I'm hoping to be able to make expect do what we need and
introduce it into nano-regress.

Thanks much all.