dpkg 1.17.8ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

dpkg (1.17.8ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable to bring in several bugfixes, including
    the hostile patch unpack directory traversal fix for CVE-2014-0471

dpkg (1.17.8) unstable; urgency=high

  [ Guillem Jover ]
  * Do not backup nonexistent database files from the cron.daily file.
    And stop emitting tar warnings. Closes: #745592, #745651
  * Test suite:
    - Improve Perl code coverage.
    - Improve C code coverage.
  * Handle space-only strings when parsing versions in libdpkg.
  * Document the environment requirements for the dpkg-maintscript-helper
    supports command in the man page. Closes: #739634
  * Improve wording for «dpkg --verify» and --verify-format in the man page.
    Closes: #733057
  * Switch test runner from Test::Harness to TAP::Harness.
  * Use the perl TAP::Harness for the C test suite instead of the automake
    tap-driver, to avoid requiring automake >= 1.12, currently not present
    in stable.
  * Enable failed test case reporting from the TAP::Harness, so that we get
    more meaningful reports on failure from the C test suite.
  * Correctly parse C-style diff filenames in Dpkg::Source::Patch, to avoid
    directory traversal attempts from hostile source packages when unpacking
    them. Reported by Jakub Wilk <email address hidden>. Fixes CVE-2014-0471.

  [ Updated programs translations ]
  * German (Sven Joachim).
  * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #745869
  * Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân).
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>   Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:16:49 -0600