On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 18:36 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > I do check for blobs in each new upstream version but apparently I > > missed this one. > > Thanks a lot for your work. Are you using the same deblob script or is > there some heuristics used for new versions? I have my own script that looks for large arrays of integer literals. I run that over the diff and then use my own judgement as to whether each such array is plausibly the 'preferred form for making changes'. (Most of them turn out to be lookup tables for e.g. keymaps, cryptography or radio parameters.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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