security fix for temp files in cvs now

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Tue Aug 17 22:49:47 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 00:29, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> > See also https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=4271 in
> > relation to this file. 
> 
> Note that the bug reporter is probably half correct. INFO/OBSOLETES is
> probably not always empty, just few packages use it, and I don't have
> any around that I know of they do, so I can't check right now.
> 
> However, he seems to be correct on the INFO/LICENSE issue.

Duh. Topsy turvy. It's been too long. INFO/OBSOLETES is missing and
needs to be added. That part is correct. However, although I don't
oppose also adding INFO/LICENSE dropping INFO/COPYRIGHT is not a good
idea. Don't apply that patch ad verbatim. Also note "$1" -> "$f".

Leonard.

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