cvs commit: src/contrib/cvs/src modules.c server.c
David O'Brien
obrien at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 28 09:44:20 PST 2004
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 07:00:24AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:24:48PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 08:27:57AM -0800, Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> > > nectar 2004/01/21 08:27:57 PST
> > >
> > > FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > > Modified files: (Branch: CYCLIC)
> > > contrib/cvs/src modules.c server.c
> > > Log:
> > > Incorporate two security fixes from later versions of CVS.
> > > From the NEWS file of cvs 1.11.11:
> >
> > This is a messy way to do this -- why didn't we just do a full import of
> > 1.11.11?
>
> Well *I* didn't do a full import because I'm not our CVS maintainer
> and I don't want to be the CVS maintainer. I like the job our current
> CVS maintainer does and I'm content to wait until he is ready to
> import a new version.
>
> So instead I followed standard procedure for incorporating a bugfix
> from upstream without importing a new version. I'm not sure what's so
> messy.
It makes the vendor branch isn't consistent -- a hodge-podge of sources.
The standard procedure for incorporating a bugfix assumes that once there
is a full release out with the bug fix it would be imported.
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