What the developer wrote
Authored by MarcoFalke
test: [doc] Remove outdated comment
The curl requirement has long been removed, when windows support was
added to the script. Also, the build support has long been dropped,
since the project switched from autotools to cmake.
What changed, and why it matters
This commit simply deletes an outdated explanatory comment from a test helper script. No code behavior changes, no security fix or vulnerability is introduced.
No action needed; this is a documentation-only cleanup with no security relevance.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The change removes a four-line header comment in test/get_previous_releases.py that incorrectly stated the script needs curl/tar to download releases or build dependencies to build them. The commit message notes those requirements are obsolete because Windows support was added and the project moved from autotools to cmake. The diff contains only comment deletions; no executable logic is modified.
Changed components
test/get_previous_releases.pyInspect captured patch +0 / −4
diff --git a/test/get_previous_releases.py b/test/get_previous_releases.py
index 4984c1b2..cab4c6e8 100755
--- a/test/get_previous_releases.py
+++ b/test/get_previous_releases.py
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
# Copyright (c) 2018-present The Bitcoin Core developers
# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-#
-# Download or build previous releases.
-# Needs curl and tar to download a release, or the build dependencies when
-# building a release.
import argparse
import contextlib
Why this scored 15/100
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