On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:54:44AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Fine. This particular cracker hid a poison pill in the > program, which would attempt to evade developer checks, and, at a > point in time, trigger to deny the use the services of the > program. Denial of services trojan, rahter cleverly > disguised. No. Its not a poisonpill. It just refuses to work if it cant give an extrabit of verbosity that the developer needs to debug it. Wether this is against DSFG already (in non-free terms) is something i will not judge about. That the code is obfuscated is IMVHO a tribute to the fact that upstream feared that the maintainer will just rip his code off if he detects it and the Debian Package again is missing that extrabit that the upstream demanded. > Still, the upstream is a cracker, and next time, he'll do worse. Stop being ridiculous. You are doing acussations which are simply silly. You are turning this into a flamewar against Upstream and that is becoming more annoying than anything what Upstream did. I get the impression you feel *personally* *offended* by the damage you see done by upstream to the debian project. Although iam not backing Ruediger up in this case - the Debian Project does not only consist of the Debian maintainer only, there could have happend a lot of talk to prevent all what happened now - i do not see how removing the Package would do the Users any good. It does not help the debian project if people imply destructive behaviour on Ruediger. -rg -- | Rico -mc- Gloeckner | mv ~/.signature `finger mc@ukeer.de`
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