[wp-hackers] Security Releases Proposal

[Stefano]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:24:16 -0700, Matt <speedboxer at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 6/12/07, Stefano <steagl at people.it> wrote:
>>
>> There is a third way, less complicated for most users than diff file
>> and that avoid to have users hacj file manually... a "patch" distro
>> with only the interested files that correct security flawn.
>
>
>Problem with that would be if someone tries to patch x.y.1 with a file meant
>for patch x.y.2.

This would apply to a list of code to patch by hand as you proposed,
people can apply this to an erroneous version with the addition of the
risk to mistype something even if working on the right version to
patch.

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