Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [070918 20:53]:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:09:43PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Andreas Barth writes ("Re: glibc's getaddrinfo() sort order"):
> > > [stuff]
> > 2. RFC3484 s6 rule 9 should not be applied to IPv6 addresses
> > by Debian systems, but we do not overrule the maintainer
> > on this point.
>
> Why are we weaker on this point? Should we simply say "wrt IPv6 addresses,
> the RFC should be followed", and leave the behaviour we think proper
> up to the results of:
I think that's a very bad idea. I was even considering if we shouldn't
consider to overrule the maintainers here as well.
> I don't disagree, I'm just not convinced that the behaviour is bad
> enough to warrant violating the standard or diverging from upstream. I'm
"The standard" is the old behaviour.
Cheers,
Andi
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