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Re: [ROS] The perils of security tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Fri May 23 18:55:16 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Cc: ben@links.org, shap@eros-os.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com, open-source@csl.sri.com
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 23:40:45 +0200
In-Reply-To: <E1Jw9YO-0003zB-14@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz> (Peter
Gutmann's message of "Wed, 14 May 2008 17:29:28 +1200")
* Peter Gutmann:
> Debian seem to be particularly bad for not reporting changes to
> maintainers,
This shouldn't be the case. There's a clear policy that non-packaging
changes (basically, anything beyond trivial build fixes and pathname
changes for FHS compliance) should be submitted upstream.
> I've got a few packages that are contained in a number of distros and
> I notice via occasional Google searches for semi-related items that
> I'm getting hits to CVS change logs for my code where someone is
> repeatedly re-applying some patch to every new version I release.
If you name names, we can certainly fix that. I couldn't figure out
what packages are affected on Debian's side.
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