ssh_config broken

Jacek Konieczny jajcus at jajcus.net
Tue Dec 1 15:24:45 CET 2015


On 2015-12-01 15:05, Marcin Krol wrote:
>> Anyway - glen is right, rpm should reject that...
>
> Perhaps we should go debian-like route and accept only patches that
> apply cleanly? Fuzziness can cause code to be inserted/deleted/modified
> in wrong places which can cause compile time errors, segfaults, broken
> configs etc. I encountered such issues many times and most of our
> patches apply with fuzzines or offsets.

But this case was not about fuzzines or invalid patch. Patches are 
allowed to contain trailing data – they might be part of an e-mail 
message. That is why blues' patch was accepted. The line ignored was 
technically outside of the patch.

Jacek


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