On 4/22/2014 2:12 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
There is no strong need for the m-c removals to be tied to the ESR schedule. However, I think it would be preferable to make the changes before the ESR deadline so that future c-c patches backport easily to the ESR (if there are security holes in the code being moved; and there may well be, since decoders for multibyte encodings are prone to buffer overflows / pointer arithmetic errors) and future m-c patches would backport easily to the m-c ESR, too.
If these encoders/decoders have been around for 10 years without security holes being found, I'll doubt there'll be any reported in the next year. Given that there is less than a week to the next branch and we're already fighting multiple failures due to m-c related bustage, if this isn't any real need to force the removal to occur before the ESR branch,
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