[REPOST PATCH xauth] Don't crash when running past the end of the chain

[Dr. Tilmann Bubeck]

Hi Egbert,

I developed a patch for xauth to fix some nasty problems. I first asked 
Alan to apply the patch but he had not enough time to do it. So after 
some time he gave me access to Xorg as a commiter (I certainly did not 
do this on my own).

So my plan was to look after xauth, which I still want to do. However, I 
changed my employer in the mean time so I currently have not much spare 
time. But this will change soon, as I am now more incorporated to my new 
job.

I now promise to apply the patch and all other pending stuff until the 
end of the month. If I fail, then feel free to remove me from the 
MAINTAINERs file and revoke my access rights. However, I am confident, 
that I can do it, because it really is not much to do.

Feel free to contact me for further questions.

Kind regards,
  Tilmann

Am 18.09.2013 19:44, schrieb Egbert Eich:
>
> Hi!
>
> On August 14 I've reposted three patches for xauth to this mailing list.
> I did so, because I had discovered that a 'Dr. Tilmann Bubeck' has added
> himself as maintainer of the xauth package to the xorg/doc/xorg-docs/MAINTAINERS
> file on Jan. 22 2013 - considering the change frequency of this file this
> is not that long ago.
> The only reply I ever got on any of the 3 posts was by Walter Harms.
>
> So I did a quick check in the xauth package which did not turn up any
> contribution by this individual.
>
> After doing further investigations I concluded that this commit apparently
> was the only thing that he has ever contributed to any X.Org related package.
>
> Research on Google did not turn up any relevant affiliation to any X.Org
> related software.
>
> For this change his name and email address is listed not only for the author
> but also for the committer.
>
> This begs the question how did this commit ever get into the xorg-docs
> package?
> Did he commit this change himself - and if so, how did he get commit
> access to the X.Org repos?
> Or if he didn't do it himself (and he may not even be aware of this commit),
> who else did - using his name and email?
>
> Cheers,
> 	Egbert.
>

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