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Egbert Eich eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Mon Dec 6 06:28:38 PST 2004


Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 0 o'clock on Dec 4, Markus Kuhn wrote:
 > 
 > > I have not yet converted anything under xc/extras/. Shall I convert
 > > anything there as well, or should this better be left to upsteam
 > > maintainers?
 > 
 > Extras is supposed to be an exact copy of a specific upstream release, so 
 > we shouldn't ever commit our own changes there.  Feel free to whine at the 
 > upstream maintainers if you like.
 > 

That's not entirely true. We 'inherited' Xpm because nobody else feels
responsible for it any more. Now we have to worry about all the security
problems in this lib. 

That's why extras/ is a bad idea.

Egbert.



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