Comment 15 for bug 9464

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In , Florian Weimer (fw) wrote : Re: Bug#278262: file in tmp hole in make_oidjoins_check

* Joey Hess:

>> > It should be fixed, just in case someone happens to find it in the
>> > source package.
>>
>> Joey, I think you have rather lost your sense of proportion here.
>
> Not really; other linux dsitributions have shipped this script in binary
> packages, it's obviously not too unlikely that someone would find it and
> use it.

But any stable update has a potentially destabilizing effect, too, so
we have to carefully weigh our options. If a stable update is
scheduled because of the data loss bug, it should also incorporate the
security fix, but releasing a no-op security fix alone doesn't make
sense to me.