Re: source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Yaroslav, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > I ITPed a package which unfortunately ended up not providing original > sources (sources everybody gets were indentation removed). Unreasonable > denial of providing original source forced me to question good intent of > the author to provide useful and spa

Re: source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-30 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
> * Yaroslav Halchenko: > > The question is: are there any helper tools for doing source code > > validation subject to possibly available snippets of code which might be > > for illegal activity (ie sending out private information, or serve as > > backdoors, etc)? > There are several commercial

Re: source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Yaroslav Halchenko: > The question is: are there any helper tools for doing source code > validation subject to possibly available snippets of code which might be > for illegal activity (ie sending out private information, or serve as > backdoors, etc)? There are several commercial bug finding

source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-29 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Debian People, I ITPed a package which unfortunately ended up not providing original sources (sources everybody gets were indentation removed). Unreasonable denial of providing original source forced me to question good intent of the author to provide useful and spam/crap-free software. Since