I'll ask the person responsible for that. I'm guessing there exists some platform somewhere that does the wrong thing with af_family = 0.
I'm also hoping that we can move past that now. I'm guessing that an svn blame would suggest that code is old. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org