Re: Bug#702278: busybox upload

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

08.04.2013 11:57, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Forgot to mention one thing:
> 
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (08/04/2013):
>> My take is: until we hit real bugs in real situations, we keep busybox as it is. If release managers want to cherry-pick a few fixes, I won't stop them from requesting so. But as far as I'm concerned, I'd really like to see practical issues before getting busybox updated.
> 
> Nonetheless, I do appreciate your efforts in trying to get things fixed, especially when done by cherry-picking things from upstream, instead of insisting for our moving to latest master. It's just too late for that, for bugs that don't seem to be hit in real life©®™.

We've at least two bugs which do hit us in real life - this is the
xz multi-stream issue (already seen on kernel.org) and non-working
grep -w.  But I repeat myself.

FWIW.

Thanks,

/mjt