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From: John Spencer <maillist-musl@barfooze.de>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Cc: rrt@sc3d.org
Subject: Re: printf POSIX compliance
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:38:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD22A87.1030709@barfooze.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdohVh21QvJW4=QtuhZOYCvt-wYdZ34pJYTwGVnTqn9eX_A@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/08/2012 06:16 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
> The maintainers (Gary Vaughan and Eric Blake) are both active, so I
> think it's worth it; Eric works on gnulib too.
>
> You're right that of course for practical purposes it requires new
> releases using the fixed version of gnulib, but many of these issues
> (this one included) affect multiple packages, and also it's possible
> to "repair" a broken package by refreshing gnulib before building.
>
i was recently following a conversation in #gdb where GNU people (!) 
were trying to update gnulib and failed...
it took them about 5 hours to get everything fixed.
i don't think most users of gnulib want to go through this mess...


  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-08 10:34 Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 12:19 ` Luca Barbato
2012-06-08 12:32   ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 14:04 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-06-08 14:16   ` Rich Felker
2012-06-08 14:44 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-08 14:55   ` Rich Felker
2012-06-08 15:06     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-06-08 15:29       ` Rich Felker
2012-06-08 15:43         ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 15:53           ` Rich Felker
2012-06-08 16:16             ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 16:38               ` John Spencer [this message]
2012-06-08 16:37                 ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-09  7:43                   ` John Spencer
2012-06-09 14:17                     ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 16:46       ` John Spencer
2012-06-08 16:46         ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 16:51           ` Rich Felker
2012-06-08 16:58             ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 17:00           ` Rich Felker
2012-06-08 17:07             ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-08 23:25               ` Rich Felker
2012-06-09  2:33           ` Isaac Dunham
2012-06-09  2:45             ` Rich Felker
2012-06-09 12:58               ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-06-09 14:17                 ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-09 21:11                 ` Rich Felker
2012-06-09 21:24                   ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-09 14:15               ` Reuben Thomas
2012-06-11  9:37 Pedro Alves

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