On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, autrelandes-curl_at_yahoo.fr wrote:

> A patch has been recently provided for curl (ftp) in fedora 8.
> I did not see any thread discussing the case, and the patch is not included
> in current CVS, so here is the link :
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427966

Ok, so the official list of evil distros are now:

  Fedora
  Ubuntu
  FreeBSD

And by evil I mean that they do this: they patch curl and fix things and don't
tell us they did it, don't send us the patch nor include us in the
discussion[*].

This bug report in Fedora is very short on details, and while I can perhaps
accept that the patch fixed their problem I'm a bit concerned that it just
addresses the particular sympthom they somehow managed to get but that it
isn't the cure for the actual problem. That problem is hard to tell a lot
about.

So, I'm a bit reluctant to just "blindly" apply this.

Anyone else with an opinion on this particular patch or on the larger issue
that is mention in this Fedora bug report?

[*] = http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/02/05/distros-going-their-own-way/

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