Re: png2/3 problem apparently successfully solved with -Bsymbolic
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 23:28, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> > > Why?
> > > Can't we just use it in Debian?
> >
> > Are you mad? What happens if the ELF format or gnu upstream start using that
> > value for something else?
> We notify them of the problem.
> Furthermore the patch can be immediately sent to the glibc maintainers.
This is sort of like asking your wife if she did not like the new color you
paint*ed* the entire house with.
I have nothing against writing the patches and proposing them upstream, mind
you. I don't think we should be _deploying_ it before upstream accepts
them, though.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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