On 11/18/2010 02:16 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Andrew Haley (aph@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >>> and, most importantly, because it is NOT our job to work around bugs >>> in proprietary software! >> >> How is any of that a reason not to patch glibc? >> >> Upside of patching: happy users. >> Downside: nothing. > > Downside: cranky libc maintainers > > While possibly sometimes hard to distinguish from the default state, I'm > guessing that the chance of getting glibc upstream to change their behavior > for a closed-source app that broke semantics defined in K&R is nil, and they're > going to be pretty annoyed if we slam that in on top of them. I sympathize. This comes down to the core question that we keep banging against: who is Fedora for, its users or it maintainers? Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
