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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/mpfc/files: mpfc-1.3.7-INT_MAX.patch
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:26:39
Message-Id: 4CC6F32F.20200@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-sound/mpfc/files: mpfc-1.3.7-INT_MAX.patch by Mike Frysinger
1 On 10/26/2010 06:11 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday, October 25, 2010 18:17:21 Alexis Ballier wrote:
3 >> On Monday 25 October 2010 19:06:45 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
4 >>> Il giorno lun, 25/10/2010 alle 18.50 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto:
5 >>>> Am I missing something obvious or is it just hiding a bug in the
6 >>>> linux
7 >>>> headers? I see no usage of INT_MAX in the patched .c file...
8 >>>
9 >>> Upstream seem not to care about fixing that; we used to have a patch to
10 >>> "fix" linux-headers, but Mike dropped it with 2.6.35 to stay as close to
11 >>> upstream as possible.
12 >>
13 >> so now we prefer poor workarounds in dozens of packages to fixing the real
14 >> bug in a single one in order to stay as close as possible to an
15 >> unresponsive upstream? nice
16 >
17 > you're free to argue the merits on lkml like anyone else. this package is
18 > going to be broken in pretty much every distro out there, so pushing limits.h
19 > to whichever package's upstream would be useful too.
20 > -mike
21
22 for this particular package, it's already fixed in trunk
23
24 http://mpfc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mpfc/trunk/plugins/input/audiocd/audiocd.c?r1=261&r2=288