On Monday 25 October 2010 19:06:45 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno lun, 25/10/2010 alle 18.50 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto: > > Am I missing something obvious or is it just hiding a bug in the > > linux > > headers? I see no usage of INT_MAX in the patched .c file... > > Upstream seem not to care about fixing that; we used to have a patch to > "fix" linux-headers, but Mike dropped it with 2.6.35 to stay as close to > upstream as possible.
so now we prefer poor workarounds in dozens of packages to fixing the real bug in a single one in order to stay as close as possible to an unresponsive upstream? nice A. PS: What to do if there is a clever upstream for another package refusing to add such a workaround ? Carry the patch over and over ? This sounds very selfish.
