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Bug 462190 - Inclusion of breakpad fork in bug-buddy
Inclusion of breakpad fork in bug-buddy
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 462155
Product: bug-buddy
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.19.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Bug-buddy Maintainers
Bug-buddy Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-31 16:16 UTC by Loïc Minier
Modified: 2007-07-31 16:19 UTC
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Description Loïc Minier 2007-07-31 16:16:23 UTC
Hi,

While looking at bug-buddy 2.19.0, I saw the inclusion of code from Google breakpad with modifications to this code.

This is a big issue for distros such as Debian which do not allow embedded copies to be used.  The rationale is that security fixes should be made at a single place.

Of course, some projects are forks of some others, in which case we support both branches, but in the general case (such as embedding a lib within a software), we don't allow this.

It's ok to have an embedded copy as a *fallback*, and for example allow building against an external breakpad, but I fear this is not possible since you need some modifications to breakpad, is this correct?

If it is, could you please send these changes to breakpad's upstream?

Thanks,
Comment 1 Fernando Herrera 2007-07-31 16:19:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 462155 ***