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Re: extensive patching



Hi Michal!

> Martin Uecker <muecker@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Upstream answered that it is okay too remove the seeding of the PRNG
> > with uninitialized memory, but the concrete patch which additionally and
> > erranously removed all seeding was never posted on openssl-dev.
>
> Are you sure?
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.openssl.devel/10917

I don't see a patch there. This might sound like nitpicking, but
a real patch would have provided some context to the two lines.

Nevertheless, the right thing in my opinion would have been to
propose a patch, wait until it is accepted, and then to package
the new upstream version.

Regards,
Martin


 

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