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Re: Comparison and rebuttal of Raul Miller/20040119-13 against Andrew Suffield/GR Editorial



> > > We only accepted the LSB on the proviso that it would not interfere
> > > with other packages - that it could be handled entirely by the people
> > > who were interested in supporting LSB applications. I object to any
> > > proposal to expand it beyond this.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:28:13AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > You seem to be asserting that we, as a project, shouldn't recognize such
> > standards violations as bugs.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:02:06PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> Correct. Violating the LSB is not a bug. Nor is violating the win32
> API. Neither of them are relevant; we ship Debian packages, not LSB
> packages or win32 programs, even though Debian happens to be able to
> run all three under certain conditions.

I'll agree with you this far: a violation of the win32 API could be a
bug in wine, but not a bug in libc6.

-- 
Raul



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