On Wed, 3 May 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
> It also includes a broken 'sort' command. HOW DO YOU BREAK SORT!!!!????
> The code hasn't changed in 20 something years?!
They patched it to support locales. Either their patch is broken, or
glibc's locale support is broken. More likely, both.
The bug has been acknowledged, and is fixed in their development tree.
Hopefully, we will see an "official" update soon. Here is the Bugzilla issue
(initiated by someone at MCL, in fact):
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10570
The thing that bothers me about this is that they didn't run regression
tests for a basic package like textutils. Even worse, textutils already
includes automatic tests, so it isn't like it would have required a lot of
effort on their part. One of the first rules of software maintenance is that
you always, *always*, *ALWAYS* run regression tests after anything bigger then
a cosmetic change.
My opinion of Red Hat has dropped a couple points with this one.
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