Comment by artursapek
9 years ago
They'd have to re-implement the patch in source before doing anything else to it. I wonder if they are no longer able to build from source anymore... why else would they resort to this?
9 years ago
They'd have to re-implement the patch in source before doing anything else to it. I wonder if they are no longer able to build from source anymore... why else would they resort to this?
As explained in the article and in other comments, it's possible that there are dependencies that rely on address continuity of contents or file size continuity.