Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)
Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:15:43AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>> Martin Schulze has been told more than once that this was not an OpenBSD
>>>> patch.
>>> Could you please tell me why this is such a huge deal?
>> hmm. I'm given to understand that you don't get annoyed when people
>> are (to be generous) careless with their descriptions of security-related
>> issues.
> I could understand a certain annoyance, but yelling at them and calling their
> actions â??maliciousâ?? on public mailing lists seems a bit... overblown for
> misattributing a patch to lynx.
hmm - if it were only one instance, you might have a point.
But it's not. If he's not malicious, the other rule applies (not compentant).
Take your pick. I don't care, would not have anything to do with Debian if
the package maintainers did this poorly.
bye
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Thomas E. Dickey
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