On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Lionel Cons <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9 October 2013 17:46, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-10-10 source release
>> has been posted to the download site
>> http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
>> the package names and md5 checksums are
>> INIT 63bd36aef7833ab08b8c3b381e412c8a
>> ast-base 1c26b780b153d9e35cea978ccbfdcea1
>> ast-open 9221f5411ff69665186a7d328445c75a
>> ast-gpl c29ca45ed1fd62ed336d178c83c418c0
>> ast-ksh 612793fe34837a0d409d6cf360dcb01c
>> ast-jmake 3a4975ca9fd9e7d6f4749ae7f9cf8238
>> the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
>>
>> the last day at at&t for { dgk gsf } is 2013-10-10
>> this will be the last at&t post by us
>> for the immediate future ek will be handling ast opensource posts
>> { dgk gsf } will forward changes to ek for future posts
>> this is not an ideal situation -- there are plans to remedy this
>> with { git bugzilla } or equivalents -- but first we have to land
>> on our feet outside of at&t
>>
>> for completeness the alpha download page contains some packages
>> that haven't been posted in a while
>>
>> changes since 2013-09-26
>>
>> :::::::: bgp ::::::::
>>
>> 13-10-10 bgp-mrt.c: fix STATE_BGP_TABLE to parse all attr() before nlri()
>>
>> :::::::: ksh93 ::::::::
>>
>> 13-10-08 --- Release ksh93v- ---
>> 13-10-08 The shell arithmetic now recognized suffices f,F, l, and L for
>> floating point constants.
>> 13-10-07 The shell now prints an error message on standard error when a
>> job specified with %job does not exist.
>> 13-10-04 A bug in the value of i.MAX inside an arithmetic expression when
>> the
>> variable i is unsigned long has been fixed.
>>
>> :::::::: libast ::::::::
>>
>> 13-09-27 path/pathcanon.c: fix buffer clobber bug between pathdev() and
>> fgetcwd()
>> 13-09-27 path/pathopen.c: handle easy O_XATTR case for /dev/fd open()
>> semantics
>>
>> :::::::: mailx ::::::::
>>
>> 13-10-01 mailx: add autosign to auto sign new messages
>>
>> :::::::: std ::::::::
>>
>> 13-09-26 split.c: fix opetget() docs
>
> There are a lot of patches missing which have been submitted in the
> past (e.g. getconf XATTR_EXISTS or getconf -f to deal with probing
> file descriptors).
>
> Now that this has happened *very* often - this is not the first time
> I've been observing this - is there a reason for this or just a row of
> oversights? From Jan - Aug 2013 less than 30% of the patches submitted
> have been included in ast.
Well, that is pretty much the reason why a lot of people like Debian
or Suse gave up pushing patches to upstream ('ATT'). Patches are
submitted but deliberately ignored.
Simon
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