> On Mar 7, 2015, at 2:30 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:19:40 -0500
> Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> After doing some additional research, I think that the
>> current implementation of NOT allowing duplicates (in
>> APR 1.5/1.6) is BROKEN. In trunk this is determined by
>> a flag w/ the insert statement, but the default *should*
>> be to allow dups.
>> 
>> As such, I'd like to adjust 1.5/1.6 to the correct and,
>> afaict, canonical behavior.
> 
> I don't believe we can do this, it defies all rational API compatibility
> revisioning policies of any project, anywhere.
> 
> If we committed a broken-thing into the 1.x branch, let's move forward
> and ship 2.0 already, complete with the triage for things we didn't
> mean to happen?
> 

Not honoring dups IS A BUG. The above seems to imply that any
patch for any broken feature requires a MMN bump. That is crazy.
apr_skiplist is a skiplist implementation. Skiplists allow
for dups. That we don't is a BUG.

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