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Brian Dolbec posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:09:06 -0700 as excerpted: |
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> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:45:38 +0200 Alexander Berntsen |
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> <bernalex@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 22/09/15 16:27, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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>> > But, I wonder if the change had a bug side effect...causing him the |
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>> > grief |
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>> It appears the "problem" is that he can't exploit an old bug. So it's |
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>> actually the opposite. |
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> hey, I'm still waking up ;) I went over the previous emails/patch. |
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> Yeah, I see it clearly now. He was splitting the date suffix, which the |
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> whole date is considered as one boundary zone. |
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Second hand as I don't do IRC (tho the date string example was |
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specifically mentioned on the big dev thread a couple times, and I was as |
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a result surprised to see the "bug fix" here without so much as a mention |
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that if the date string thing worked it was only by accident, as it was |
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always exploiting a bug...) |
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But as a workaround, has anyone suggested the obvious... 2015.0922 ? |
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I find 2015.0922 visually easier to parse than 20150922, in any case, and |
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in fact routinely do break it down into four-digit substrings here, as |
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extensions for dated backups of various critical config files, etc. |
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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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