Archives for 14 May 2008
…why you should never, never, *never* patch code that you do not understand fully…
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-openssl/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c?rev=141&view=diff&r1=141&r2=140&p1=openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c&p2=/openssl/trunk/rand/md_rand.c
And that is why you report bugs to upstream and let those that know what they are doing, sort them out. Not someone with a half-wit for a brain.
Random patching and “improvement” of code is evil. End of story.
“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, my ass. Look at all the debian, and debian related […]