Re: git critical security vulnerability

Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin-apps writes:
> I've been intending to update the Git packages -- and many of the
> others -- Any Day Now for over a year (I just checked and that job has
> been on my to-do list since 1 June 2024...). I'm still intending to do
> that, and had bumped it up my priority list in response to these
> emails, but I'm very grateful to Achim to sorting out the NMU to
> resolve these requests!

I've just released 2.51.0 as a test release you can base your future
work on.

> If there's someone else who's interested in taking over, I'd be more
> than happy to hand the baton over for any of these packages. Equally,
> I'm happy for my name to continue to be listed against them and I'll
> update them when I manage it. I am still following the mailing lists,
> but realistically I wasn't going to manage my own upload for this
> until late September thanks to various other bits of personal life
> needing to take priority.

As long as the package builds without problems I can help updating it.
I don't have the bnandwidth to do packaging changes or dealing with
upstream.  Btw, there's talk of Git starting to require Rust in certain
parts, so that will be a fun ride for the Cygwin maintainer depending on
how that turns out to get implemented.


Regards,
Achim.
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