[Lcms-user] Announcement about patches

2009-04-19 Thread Marti.Maria
Hi, After the bad experience of those “security” patches flying around, I would like to establish a clear process to deal with such stuff. I think security issues are real and should be addressed. And I prefer to address by myself, so you would know who to blame if anything fails. The

Re: [Lcms-user] Announcement about patches

2009-04-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
Marti, It is nice to see that you are being super-secure regarding lcms patches, but this seems a bit pointless given the way that lcms is currently distributed from a 'blind' web site (http://www.littlecms.com/downloads.htm) with no way to verify that a distribution package is current and

Re: [Lcms-user] Announcement about patches

2009-04-19 Thread Kai-Uwe Behrmann
Am 19.04.09, 12:12 -0500 schrieb Bob Friesenhahn: I extracted lcms-1.18a.tar.gz and notice that there are no documentation updates and that the package extracts as lcms-1.18 rather than lcms-1.18a. The only way to tell that there has been an update is that src/cmsxform.c is more recent than

Re: [Lcms-user] Announcement about patches

2009-04-19 Thread marti . maria
Ok, I will adopt the 1.18.2 naming convention for the next update, and modify the NEWS file as well. Regarding being more secure... well, this is color management and not a security package, so probably Bob is right and all this effort may be pointless. What do you think? Giving a MD5 message

Re: [Lcms-user] Announcement about patches

2009-04-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, marti.ma...@littlecms.com wrote: Regarding being more secure... well, this is color management and not a security package, so probably Bob is right and all this effort may be pointless. What do you think? Giving a MD5 message digest would help? Do we need anything else?

Re: [Lcms-user] Announcement about patches

2009-04-19 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Sunday 19 April 2009 01:09:27 pm Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, marti.ma...@littlecms.com wrote: Regarding being more secure... well, this is color management and not a security package, so probably Bob is right and all this effort may be pointless. What do you think? Giving