As I look at Coverity - heimdal.

[Ira Cooper]

Given what you just said:

I'm avoiding heimdal.

Thanks,

-Ira


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 18:01 -0500, Ira Cooper wrote:
> > I'm looking at our list of Coverity problems, it looks like a decent
> > fraction of them ~15% are due to heimdal.
> >
> > I'd like to know the project's policy towards fixing issues in Heimdal,
> as
> > I start looking into fixing Coverity issues in Samba.
>
> Heimdal is very willing to take patches - the are on github and
> regularly accept pull requests from there.
>
> Please try and fix things upstream, and then apply the same patch here.
> This will reduce the work required when we update the Heimdal sources,
> which we need to do more often than we currently do.  Please don't make
> that any harder.
>
> Also, you may find many of these issues are already addressed upstream.
> If you wanted to help import a new Heimdal version, I could explain or
> work with you on the process (we have scripts to avoid loosing local
> patches).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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