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Arnaud Launay posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:30:24 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Hello, |
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> Le Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:05:16PM +0200, Markos Chandras a écrit: |
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>> # Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> (11 Jan 2010) # Fails with |
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>> -Wl,--as-needed |
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>> # bug #182782. Removal in 30 days |
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> As a newsmaster, I'm a bit concerned by this. By viewing bug #182782 , |
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> it seems to me that only inn <=2.4.* is concerned by this bug, and that |
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> >=2.5 does not have it. |
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> But, if I understand this announce correctly, the complete inn port will |
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> be dropped to oblivion. |
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> Wouldn't it be better to stabilize inn 2.5 (there's even a 2.5.1 release |
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> out there, with a quite reactive support/dev team, to which this "bug" |
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> could be pushed and corrected), than to just drop inn entirely ? |
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> Or maybe I'm just plain wrong, in which case I will happily stand |
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> corrected. |
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While I'm an --as-needed user myself, add my post here too. |
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A work-around is a work-around and shouldn't close the bug, agree with |
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flame-eyes there, but it seems a bit much to yank something as standard |
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as INN from the tree over this, especially when there's no indication it |
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applies to the ~arch version 2.5, only 2.4.x, in either bug (182782, |
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248145, refer to the log for the latter). |
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Not only is there no indication that 2.5 is affected, but if it is, |
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where's the mention of the upstream bug number? |
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Replacements? There's leafnode, and checking, I see openntpd4 and |
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twisted news. Still, inn is rather like sendmail for news. Do we |
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/really/ want to kill it? |
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IMO, the backing on this one seems thin and the timing premature. |
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Perhaps it does need to go, but if so, there's certainly a stronger case |
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to be made for it than those couple bugs and the last-rites masking |
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comment. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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