fix logrotate buffer overflow

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Mar 18 11:26:50 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 00:38 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > The Fedora Bugzilla is at http://bugzilla.redhat.com. You can create
> > an account there and then report your bug (and patch) against the
> > logrotate package. If it needs to be reported upstream, the package
> > maintainer will do it.
> 
> As a package maintainer, I greatly appreciate it when folks submit bug
> reports upstream.  It saves me a lot of time and gets the bugs
> resolved quicker in most cases, since I don't have to be a middle-man.
> 
> While I try to forward reports upstream as needed, I really don't want
> to see anyone be discouraged from reporting bugs directly upstream.
> That benefits us all, IMO.
> 

OK, it is time to report ignorance. I have difficulty with the word,
"upstream" used as it is used by people on the list. To say to  report a
bug upstream  is meaningless to me. How is this different then creating
a bugzilla report?
 
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