Re: checking the release-critical bugs

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 19:56 -0500 1998-11-18, Zephaniah E, Hull wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 05:16:21PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > I propose the following bugs should not be marked as release-critical:
> >
> > 29480 aic7xxx 5.1.0 breaks AIC-7880 support...
> >  Why: we don't use 2.0.35 for the bootdisks, so in general this should not
>
> So your saying that we currently don't use this package for anything?

We really should be using 2.0.36 now. This should be allowed into slink as 
an exception.

> > 29454 libtricks does not support lchown+alpha fix
> >  Why: alpha is not being officialy released, only a `developers
> >  release' is done
>
> As long as it does not hurt something which we are releasing I agree
> with you on this one..

But alpha *is* freezing.

> > 28245 shellutils printf doesn't check write errors
> >  Why: this behaviour has been there for ages. It should indeed be fixed but
> >       should not be release-critical imho.
>
> Mmm, thats a tough one, does broken for a long time mean it can stay
> broken for a while longer? I tend to say no...
>
> > 28248 sed doesn't check write errors
> >  Why: same as 28245
> > 28249 mawk doesn't check write errors
> >  Why: same as 28245
>
> Granted my opinion does not mean much, however another view can never
> really hurt...

I thought the concensus in those cases is that the "bugs" were bogus.
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