I have no interest in arguing with Ulrich. I'll tag the dpatch as debian-specific.
----- Forwarded message from Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:16:19 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Version parsing sanity check for dl_osinfo To: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > One of our users used an EXTRAVERSION starting with a dot when he compiled > his kernel. The version was 2.4.22.2003-10-30, which works out to > 516.22.2003 in this parsing routine. The extra check is just a couple of > cycles at application startup, so I think it's reasonable to be paranoid > here. > > Is this OK? No. I have no interest starting to make adjustments to help the clueless doing stupid things. What will be next, handle strange prefixes or self-styled version numbers? Educate the people doing these things. - -- - --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/pptz2ijCOnn/RHQRAvJLAKCvf0Sd2500GmjHUo9YjIQ+n2uUzACeIM40 A2F/eY3kpP4cjBZPTceVgHg= =Kdk9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
