[syslinux] Syslinux 6.04-pre1

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Mar 8 16:38:09 PST 2016


On March 8, 2016 4:18:07 PM PST, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 08.03.2016 18:29, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 03/08/16 09:19, poma wrote:
>>>
>>> You don't seem to understand how the packages distribution works,
>>> in this particular case, for Fedora 22.
>>>
>> 
>> I know far too well, which is exactly why I'm none too happy to
>> encourage these particular practices.
>> 
>> 	-hpa
>> 
>> 
>
>Multi multa, nemo omnia novit.
>
>You are the first, which defines cherry-pick-ing as "behavior that
>should not be encouraged".
>Quite awkward definition, may I say.
>
>http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/binutils.git/tree/
>Should we consider as "behavior that should not be encouraged" some or
>all of these patches, as well,
>including binutils-2.26-Bsymbolic_PIE.patch.
>
>Ring a bell? ;)

Actually, yes; I would personally prefer if there was a newer upstream dot release.

Cherry picking is one thing when there is no upstream maintenance release, but this is a chronic headache for us in the kernel space, too.
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