On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:23:44AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
Nobody disputes Redhat's right to fork OpenSSH, but why does
Redhat not make their desired changes through the standard RPM
patching mechanism? By distributing their own OpenSSH tarballs
instead of patching pristine sources, Redhat breaks the link of
transparency, accountability and trust that their own RPM build
model is supposed to provide.
They do the same for "xmms", for example, to eliminate MP3 support
*and also not ship MP3 source code*, due to possible legal issues.
Although I do not know this case, I guess a similar reason applies
here: they explicitly do not want to ship certain source code
included in the original tarball and just applying a patch in the
spec file does not help for that, you need to modify the tarball.
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