Debian Developers - Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 (source i386)

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Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 (source i386)

Guus Sliepen

2006-11-30, 7:28 am

On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:41:21AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:

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> There's no possibility of including that patch upstream.

So what? If upstream does not want to accept a patch that fixes a
security bug (which #396964 is, if I read it correctly), that's their
problem. Debian often releases packages with patches that are not
accepted by upstream, for various reasons.

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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>