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Excerpts from Ulrich Mueller's message of 2011-09-13 19:25:59 +0200: |
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> >>>>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > Thanks for the reminder; I looked, and it turns out that we now have |
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> > a great precedent. |
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> > Quoting PMS: |
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> > "The required bash version was retroactively updated from 3.0 to 3.2 |
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> > in November 2009 (see http://www.gentoo. |
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> > org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20091109.txt)." |
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> > So we could just retroactively update it again and let people scream |
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> > if they're actually affected by this. |
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> If you read the quoted council log, you'll find that the retroactive |
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> change was done because usage of bash 3.2 features in the tree was |
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> already widespread at that time. This is very different from the |
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> current situation, therefore it is not at all a precedent. |
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> Ulrich |
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So we need to do it “illegally” first to make it “legal”? |
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Amadeusz Żołnowski |
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