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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 |