On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 05:52:24PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I checked, and even RHEL5 is on less 436. So besides people on antique > > "I installed less from source more than 5 years ago" systems, my only > > concern would be that some other pager depends on this hack in a weird > > way. But I have never heard of such a thing, so... > > On my RHEL5 box at work: > $ less --version > less 394 > Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman Then I think you are not following the bug-fix updates, as they've issued several updates based on 436: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0214.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0805.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1468.html Looks like 394 was shipping as recently as 2009: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0413.html Given that the buggy less is apparently still in the wild, and that the patch is a pure cleanup, I guess we should scrap it for now. <sigh> -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html