tech-pkg: Re: Ignoring patch files with missing checksums

Subject: Re: Ignoring patch files with missing checksums
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/08/2007 16:05:04

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:39:50PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 02:27:57PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > Why not check for it always?  We have LOCALPATCHES if users want to add
> > their own patches.
> 
> Because users might not want to be bothered because a developer forgot a
> "cvs rm" before "cvs commit"?

That's just an inconvenience, the other case you mentioned was a security
hole.

	Geert