[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#507624: Fix prepared

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Wed Dec 3 21:34:18 UTC 2008


> This one time, at band camp, Michael Tautschnig said:
> > > OMG, I forgot about the missing { } -- I guess we should ask the security team
> > > to wait for another upload fixing this? I can do it, but would like to get your
> > > ok.
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, that is a bug indeed, but the cli_filecopy function (which contains that
> > code) is never actually called!? So, should we fix it or not?
> 
> Hmm, how odd.  It appears you're right.  I'd say it's probably better to
> make the first patch correct, but it seems a lot less important if it's
> in an unreachable code path.
> 
> I'll leave it up to you guys and the security team whether or not it's
> worth fixing.  The technical part is trivial - it's both an obvious bug
> and an easy fix, but I don't want to force the security team to review
> more than we already ask them to.
> 

I took the liberty not include that in etch16 but instead already started
preparing etch17 in git. I've loaded security team with work too much already
for today :-)

Best,
Michael

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