cvs commit: ports/mail/imaptools distinfo

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 4 12:11:02 UTC 2011


On 2011.10.03. 20:51, Doug Barton wrote:
> Confirming with the author is fine, but did you compare the old and new
> distfiles yourself? If so, what changed?
Don't take my comment personally, I just picked this particular mail to 
reply to. I have never understood why such issues have been taken so 
seriously. Imo, if the author confirms the change that should be enough. 
If we had audited the initial port and each new upgrade, a stricter 
check would make sense but we don't do that so the port can still have 
malicious code from earlier versions (e.g. irc/unreal did [1]). 
Verifying just one diff between two distfiles does not guarantee safe 
and sane code.

Cheers,
Gabor

[1] http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=6562


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