On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:42:59PM -0800, Garrett Rooney wrote: > On 2/10/06, William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AIUI this feature %pI is present on APR 1.2.x but broken on the same. > > > > +1 to backport since we are stuck with APR 1.2 for httpd for some time to > > come. > > According to our compatibility rules we cannot backport the change > as-is because it adds a new public function, and we don't do that in > patch releases. I'd be willing to go along with backporting a version > of the patch that did not make the new function publicly available, > but adding a new API is inappropriate in a patch release because it > means people who write code to the new release can't safely roll back > to the previous release due to the missing function.
I have a patch suitable for 1.2.x for this issue, but there's an outstanding report which hints that the changes on the trunk broke on Solaris/x86_64 (see thread with subject "IP strings") which has yet to be confirmed (and debugged) or denied. Regards, joe
