Re: Regex update
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:58:34PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:35:30PM -0600, Anthony Towns wrote:
>
> > > Any objections?
>
> > Not an objection, but I'd *suggest* you don't do this; the most important
> > thing to do to glibc at this point is to *fix* it (#174267, #167909 and
> > arm building at least, afaict), and the easiest and most reliable way to
> > do that is to make the minimal changes needed, and leave it at that.
>
> The reason I mentioned that one is that it's another localised fix to
> the regex engine which solves an infinite loop problem. I suspect that
> if it winds up in testing, we'll probably see a critical bug filed about
> it.
>
> Daniel fixed 174267 already. The -9 upload will have the fix.
>
> Hmm. For some reason I have in my notes here that 167909 was fixed and
> should have been closed.
>
> The CVS ChangeLog has it:
>
> - debian/patches/cvs.dpatch: Update.
> (Closes: #171550, #170507, #167909)
>
> But the one that got committed doesn't for some reasons. I also hadn't
> noticed it in the build log because it seems that bugs with tags appear
> near the bottom of the page. I'll have to remember to look there, too.
>
I seem to recall GOTO removing it as a result of some discussion...?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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