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["Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:10:42PM +0000, Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:03, Mathieu L. wrote:
> <snip>
> > Strickly speaking, wget should not be signed off because of that bug,
> > but as this bug should occur quite rarely, and because we know how to
> > fix that breakage (just recast wget so that it links to the new
> > gettext), I have marked it as signed off. Especially because I don't
> > expect anyone to implement the fix we started talking about with
> > afrayedknot before our next release (and I know I won't have time either
> > to do it soon).
> 
> I can agree that the fix isn't the simplest of operations, but I wouldn't 
> be 
> so sure about this being a rare bug. The gettext in stable is older than 
> the 
> gettext in stable-rc, and if the library has changed between those releases 
> then that means a system-rebuild from stable to stable-rc will incapacitate 
> wget whenever it's compiled against gettext (a fair portion of users, I'd 
> guesstimate).

I based that "rarely" claim on the fact that _all_ devs currently
working on the shepherding should have followed the same steps as I did;
ie they should have done a system update from stable to stable-rc at
some point. And it seems I'm the only one who encountered that bug
during that process...
However I totally agree that even though it's easily fixable just after
the breakage, it is not a give a good impression at all to a new user if
he happens to tumble upon that bug.

> Andrew, what are your thoughts?

> 
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>         Juuso Alasuutari
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