Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Éric Araujo wrote: > > Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > > Feature freeze just came by; sorry we missed this. > > Given our recent-ish discussion about additions to mimetypes (and the > consensus (IIRC) that matching the IANA database can be considered a bug > fix), I wonder if detecting more OSes in platform should be considered a new > feature. On one end we have mimetypes when there is just a dictionary update > with no risk, on the other end we have ports to new OSes which clearly are > new features; I think platform is on the fence, maybe just a bit on the new > feature side.
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