[MERGE] [0.90] Disable patch verification (broken for CRLF files)

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Mon Aug 13 17:52:57 BST 2007


On (13/08/07 11:45), John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> The chance of exploiting the change is pretty minimal, will only be
> exposed for about 1 month, and is a lot less disruptive than preventing
> bundles completely.
> 

I'm uneasy about opening up a known hole, but yes the alternative is
worse in this case.

There is another option however, that a fix is implemented that does not
open the hole. I assume that is too costly for this stage in the
release, if so then we should go for the least bad option.

Thanks,

James

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