Fwd: [OwnCloud-Packaging] Fwd: [Packaging] Backport fixes for QNAM corruption

[Albert Astals Cid]

For packager-exclusive emails i think kde-distro-packagers at kde.org is probably 
better suited than release-team.

Cheers,
  Albert

El Dimarts, 5 de maig de 2015, a les 15:55:30, Jonathan Riddell va escriure:
> Packagers may be interested in this Qt notice from our friends at OwnCloud
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> Subject: [OwnCloud-Packaging] Fwd: [Packaging] Backport fixes for QNAM
> corruption
> Date: Tuesday 05 May 2015, 15:36:47
> From: Daniel Molkentin <danimo at owncloud.com>
> To: packaging at owncloud.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we have found a critial issue in Qt (data loss during upload in certain
> situations) that affects the ownCloud client. See below post to the Qt
> mailing list for details.
> 
> Debian has already responded, we have contacted Fedora and OpenSUSE. We
> were unsure about how to approach other distributions (mostly due to
> lack of experience). Please ensure that your distribution includes those
> fixes, also for already released versions. If you have any questions,
> don't hesitate to ask.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Daniel
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	[Packaging] Backport fixes for QNAM corruption
> Date: 	Mon, 04 May 2015 12:01:41 +0200
> From: 	Daniel Molkentin <daniel at molkentin.net>
> To: 	development at qt-project.org
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have identified a data corruption in QNetworkAccessManager affecting
> all currently supported versions of Qt. Fixes have been provided for Qt
> 5.4 [1] and Qt 4.8 [2], and will be part of Qt 5.4.2 and Qt 4.8.7
> respectively. The commit message also details on the nature of the
> upload corruption. They should apply to older versions of Qt 4 and 5 as
> well.
> 
> As there is no sensible workaround for this problem, I would like to
> urge packagers to consider adding this patch to Qt for their existing
> distributions. Since the fixes are accompanied by auto tests that
> validate their correctness, the risk of this patch is very low, with the
> advantages outweighing them by far.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Daniel
> 
> [1] https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/110150/
> [2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/111363/
> 
> 
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