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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 08:53:39 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, ache@nagual.pp.ru, ru@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdlib strtol.c strtoll.c strtoq.c strtoul.c strtoull.c strtouq.c
Message-ID:  <20010905085339.C95963@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200109051135.f85BZKo61773@aldan.algebra.com>; from mi@aldan.algebra.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:35:17AM -0400
References:  <20010904165218.A59467@xor.obsecurity.org> <200109051135.f85BZKo61773@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:35:17AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > Vulnerabilities in ports are indexed by the port version: when we fix
> > a vulnerability, the version gets bumped, and it's trivial to check
> > whether the installed port is vulnerable.
> 
> I realized, that I just recently saw  such lines in some of ports' patch
> files. They  annoyed me  -- at the  source level, and  I wonder  if they
> should be removed, because they never make it to the binary anyway...

NO!  They should not be removed.  If port maintainer feels they help him
and want them in the patches, leave them alone.  Peroid.

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