Re: [arch-general] Important notice on the Arch Security Team to the whole Arch Linux community.

On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Andres P wrote:

2010/6/21 Ng Oon-Ee :

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bugs with upstream, which may not be the case with 5-10 security- patches from git/svn).

This is just pessimistic outlook. Having patches means that you're actually contributing upstream instead of leaching the latest ver every 3 weeks.

People need to stop with the notion that patching is bad. As long as you submit upstream, it's anything but a detriment. Upstream *wants* you to fix their crap.

Andres P

He said from git/svn... ie backporting, not contributing. C Anthony