Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> writes:

> [... snip ...]
> Thanks for tracking it down.
>
> I am not going to try to understand the patch and decide whether
> it is correct for the release branch.  In general, there may have
> been other changes on the master branch that this patch relied on.
>
> I think we should only include this patch if:
>
> * Patrice thinks it is okay for the release branch; and
> * The bug is important enough to fix in a bug-fix release, when balanced
>   against the complexity of the change and the risk of introducing further
>   bugs (which I doubt).
>
> Distributors (like Debian) would always be free to include the patch
> if they wanted to.

I agree.  I think a simpler patch could solve this issue better.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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