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Debian switching to EGLIBCDebian switching to EGLIBCPosted May 7, 2009 1:07 UTC (Thu) by jordanb (guest, #45668)In reply to: Debian switching to EGLIBC by ofeeley Parent article: Debian switching to EGLIBC
The guy fixed a bug in it though. Clearly it was important enough to him to do that analysis, and then fix what was wrong. All Drepper had to do is get over himself long enough to apply it.
A friend of mine sent in a patch to Emacs Tetris, to fix a bug that allowed you to cheat. RMS replied with "when you cheat at solitaire, who are you cheating?" but applied the patch anyway. Something like that would have been the proper response.
Anyway, it wasn't the strfry incident that lead Debian to this point, clearly, but more his refusal to accept patches that fixed bugs on ARM on account of it being "crap."
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Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 7, 2009 1:23 UTC (Thu) by ofeeley (guest, #36105) [Link]
Sounds like fair comment.
Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 7, 2009 14:25 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link] The guy fixed a bug in [strfry()] though. Clearly it was important enough to him to do that analysis, and then fix what was wrong. All Drepper had to do is get over himself long enough to apply it. To be fair, if you read the relevant bug report, you'll see that Mr. Drepper fixed the bug in a different way. He even re-fixed his first implementation after that was discovered to be sub-optimal. So, there should be no complaints here.
Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 11, 2009 4:31 UTC (Mon) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link]
the complaint is that no one deserves to be severely ridiculed for simply trying to fix a bug. maybe it's the wrong fix, or is truthfully not a bug, but if the only thing that you can hope to accomplish by filing a bug report is public humiliation then why bother.
Debian switching to EGLIBC Posted May 11, 2009 6:04 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Don't forget rescinding a significant contributor's commit access
(forever) and refusing to explain why. That's happened at least once.
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