{"id":290,"date":"2008-05-13T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-05-13T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T19:58:11","slug":"no-we-dont-need-a-new-openssl-maintainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"No, we don&#8217;t need a new openssl maintainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/security\/2008\/dsa-1571\">DSA-1571<\/a> is totally embarrassing. But I disagree with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technologeek.org\/2008\/05\/13\/107\">Julien BLACHE<\/a>: we don&#8217;t need a new openssl maintainer. Mistakes sometimes happen to people who do things. That sucks, but it&#8217;s unavoidable, no matter how many levels of checking you add. Kurt has done a lot of excellent work on Debian in the past years, and I&#8217;m sure he will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s a lot easier and less risky to write <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technologeek.org\/2006\/04\/16\/23\">tons<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technologeek.org\/2007\/01\/14\/46\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technologeek.org\/2007\/11\/10\/82\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technologeek.org\/2008\/04\/18\/99\">blog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.technologeek.org\/2008\/05\/13\/107\">posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Julien, there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/332498\">RFH bug<\/a> for openssl open for more than 2 years. What about getting involved and helping Kurt yourself?<\/p>\n<p>On a more constructive side: it&#8217;s not the first time that a Debian-specific change broke something (I can think of a recent grep change &#8230;). It might be useful to provide a simpler way to review those changes (reading the diff.gz files is not really user-friendly). We could have something like http:\/\/patches.ubuntu.com\/ (or even something nicer :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DSA-1571 is totally embarrassing. But I disagree with Julien BLACHE: we don&#8217;t need a new openssl maintainer. Mistakes sometimes happen to people who do things. That sucks, but it&#8217;s unavoidable, no matter how many levels of checking you add. Kurt has done a lot of excellent work on Debian in the past years, and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetdebian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}