From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,23c0de5a42cf667e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions References: <87mxw9x7no.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87bpcoydfx.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 05:41:50 -0400 Message-ID: <82tyqghz4x.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cIMfZhVA4/4zKQdy6W4SOb4ZUZc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: bc4984be7d4f5e197caa725341 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11440 Date: 2010-05-10T05:41:50-04:00 List-Id: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" writes: > Le Sun, 09 May 2010 23:26:10 +0200, Ludovic Brenta > a écrit: >>> Whatever reasons might be, they aren't good. (:-() >> >> Oh no? What about top-secret Ada code from the military that triggers a >> bug in GNAT? > Yes, every one can understand that and probably did think about that > while reading your words. However, a patch does not expose any private > data, unless you claim some details all over the worlds. > > I'm pretty sure this is more a matter of GPL vs Pro than a matter of > privacy (what privacy may be violated with a bug correction ?) The bug database includes the code that triggers the bug. It might be possible to expose only the fixes to public purview, but even the descriptions of the bug might contain some private information. It would take a lot of manual effort to present a "clean" public view. I'd rather AdaCore spend that effort on improving the tools. -- -- Stephe