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

C Anthony Risinger anthony at extof.me
Mon Jun 21 19:47:25 EDT 2010


On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Andres P <aepd87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/6/21 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>> 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


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