[REPOST PATCH xauth] Don't crash when running past the end of the chain

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Sep 18 11:35:45 PDT 2013


When there were complaints last year that no one was integrating xauth patches
since there was no maintainer, he volunteered to maintain it, so I let him try.

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-October/034079.html
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-December/034803.html

(Yes, we're desperate enough for maintainers to consider taking volunteers - if
  it's not making any difference, we're not likely to repeat the experiment.)

	-alan-

On 09/18/13 10:44 AM, Egbert Eich wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On August 14 I've reposted three patches for xauth to this mailing list.
> I did so, because I had discovered that a 'Dr. Tilmann Bubeck' has added
> himself as maintainer of the xauth package to the xorg/doc/xorg-docs/MAINTAINERS
> file on Jan. 22 2013 - considering the change frequency of this file this
> is not that long ago.
> The only reply I ever got on any of the 3 posts was by Walter Harms.
>
> So I did a quick check in the xauth package which did not turn up any
> contribution by this individual.
>
> After doing further investigations I concluded that this commit apparently
> was the only thing that he has ever contributed to any X.Org related package.
>
> Research on Google did not turn up any relevant affiliation to any X.Org
> related software.
>
> For this change his name and email address is listed not only for the author
> but also for the committer.
>
> This begs the question how did this commit ever get into the xorg-docs
> package?
> Did he commit this change himself - and if so, how did he get commit
> access to the X.Org repos?
> Or if he didn't do it himself (and he may not even be aware of this commit),
> who else did - using his name and email?
>
> Cheers,
> 	Egbert.
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