Anthony Towns wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:30:17PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
Ian Jackson writes (Re: getaddrinfo() behaviour):
Limiting the TC's power to overrule a technical decision to only cases
where the TC believes that the wrong behaviour makes the package
unsuitable for release
* Anthony Towns:
Updating the proposed standard has not been tried.
Just to give you an idea of the time scale involved: moving RFC 3484
to HISTORIC (which is the most likely result, at least for the Rule 9
part) will take at least a year.
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Anthony Towns writes (Re: getaddrinfo() behaviour):
The only reason suitability for release is relevant is in overriding the
directive that we'll not make a technical decision until efforts to
resolve it via consensus have been tried and failed. We haven't made
efforts to get a consensus
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:37:42AM +, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Anthony Towns:
Updating the proposed standard has not been tried.
Just to give you an idea of the time scale involved: moving RFC 3484
to HISTORIC (which is the most likely result, at least for the Rule 9
part) will take at
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:37:42AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Anthony Towns:
Updating the proposed standard has not been tried.
Just to give you an idea of the time scale involved: moving RFC 3484
to HISTORIC (which is the most likely result, at least for the Rule 9
part) will take at
Anthony Towns writes (Re: getaddrinfo() behaviour):
In my opinion, if this isn't an RC issue, there's no urgency to having
glibc changed prior to the standards changing, and as such, this isn't
the last resort so the tech ctte shouldn't be deciding the issue, let
alone overruling
Ian Jackson writes (Re: getaddrinfo() behaviour):
Limiting the TC's power to overrule a technical decision to only cases
where the TC believes that the wrong behaviour makes the package
unsuitable for release would eviscerate the only mechanism we have for
dealing with errors by maintainers
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:30:17PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
Ian Jackson writes (Re: getaddrinfo() behaviour):
Limiting the TC's power to overrule a technical decision to only cases
where the TC believes that the wrong behaviour makes the package
unsuitable for release would eviscerate
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