* Anthony Towns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070918 20:53]: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:09:43PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Andreas Barth writes ("Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order"): > > > [stuff] > > 2. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv6 addresses > > by Debian systems, but we do not overrule the maintainer > > on this point. > > Why are we weaker on this point? Should we simply say "wrt IPv6 addresses, > the RFC should be followed", and leave the behaviour we think proper > up to the results of:
I think that's a very bad idea. I was even considering if we shouldn't consider to overrule the maintainers here as well. > I don't disagree, I'm just not convinced that the behaviour is bad > enough to warrant violating the standard or diverging from upstream. I'm "The standard" is the old behaviour. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]