Sune Vuorela writes: > On 2010-06-13, Vincent Bernat <[email protected]> wrote: >> It is difficult to understand why we should wait freeze time to change >> anything. Some people (including me) may be afraid that the problem may >> not be corrected because of the freeze. Moreover, in the meantime, some >> applications don't work with IPv6 for people that are unaware of the >> possibility to modify the sysctl. > > You are taking the wrong approach to things. We should see if it is > still a major problem at freeze time, or if we have managed to fix all > the buggy software before freeze. > > The fix is not to revert the changes, but to fix the software that this > change exposes bugs in.
The behavior with net.ipv6.bindv6only=0 is mandated by both POSIX and the governing RFC. How can you call it a bug for software to expect that behavior? The true bug is that Debian intentionally violates these standards. If people decide (as Vincent Bernat suggested) that Debian is a buggy piece of junk because of that, they will be right. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
