cvs commit: ports/mail/imaptools distinfo

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sun Oct 9 03:45:20 UTC 2011


On 10/04/2011 04:52, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> 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.

That sounds great in theory, but how do you know that it was really the
author who answered? I don't want to go too far down the conspiracy
theory rabbit hole, but diff'ing the old and new distfiles is the way to
be sure.

> If we had audited the initial port and each new upgrade,

That should be done regardless.


Doug

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