On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 23:28, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > > > Why? > > > Can't we just use it in Debian? > > > > Are you mad? What happens if the ELF format or gnu upstream start using that > > value for something else? > We notify them of the problem. > Furthermore the patch can be immediately sent to the glibc maintainers.
This is sort of like asking your wife if she did not like the new color you paint*ed* the entire house with. I have nothing against writing the patches and proposing them upstream, mind you. I don't think we should be _deploying_ it before upstream accepts them, though. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh