[SRM] Candidate patches to d-i for Etch r2

Hi!

The debian-installer team would like to fix a few issues that are still present in the Etch version of d-i.

Before starting the work on updating the packages, I would like to get feedback from the stable release managers on those candidate patches:

• cdebconf: Fix off-by-one error reading from confmodule Closes: #430108

   Simple one liner fixing a few crashes of the installation process.

   http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-etch-r2/cdebconf-etch-r2-r47633.diff

• cdebconf: Fix a bunch of reference-counting bugs and other memory leaks

   This one is much more invasive, but has been in the daily builds for    a while without arising any problems.

   It will fixes a few installation crashing due to out cdebconf filling    the memory after displaying too many questions (e.g. complex    partioning setups).  

   http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-etch-r2/cdebconf-etch-r2-r47682.diff    http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-etch-r2/cdebconf-etch-r2-r47687.diff

• cdebconf: Fix another (large!) memory leak: parsed RFC822 stanzas were never freed

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   http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-etch-r2/cdebconf-etch-r2-r47689.diff

• cdbebconf: Fix reference leak in question_get_text

   http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-etch-r2/cdebconf-etch-r2-r48821.diff

• debconf: Make sure that apt status commands and debconf protocol commands under debconf-apt-progress are properly interleaved. Closes: #425397

   This one fixes a hang in the installer at the pkgsel/tasksel stage    that shows up pretty badly on multi-processor systems.

   http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-etch-r2/debconf-etch-r2-r2214.diff

• debootstrap: Fix bunzip2 path. Closes: #436218

   This really simple patch will fix debootstrap to be able to use bzip2    compressed files from our mirrors.

   http://people.debian.org/~lunar/d-i-etch-r2/debootstrap-etch-r2-r48889.diff

Thanks for your reviews.

Cheers,

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