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On 10/04/2014 11:47, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> writes:
>> IME issues like this need to be patched first, tested later [...]
>
> If we'd done that and screwed up, you'd be on the barricades demanding
> our heads.
>
> DES
>
Given the nature of the patch, and it being experimental (but still 
probably not as bad as leaving it unpatched) that wouldn't be the case, 
to be fair.