Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:41:10 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r303047 - head/usr.bin/sed
Message-ID:  <20160802154110.GA22737@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <7f8c5c42-7d2f-ffcf-70dd-dbc9d3202ee7@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201607192256.u6JMuewv007503@repo.freebsd.org> <20160802141738.GA84154@FreeBSD.org> <51d8013e-bc4b-a511-306d-0e362a8c3e86@madpilot.net> <7f8c5c42-7d2f-ffcf-70dd-dbc9d3202ee7@FreeBSD.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:03:20AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> [...]
> Thank you for the reports, this type of things make nice cases for the
> test suite.
> 
> There were good reasons this patch was not meant for 11.0-RELEASE. Given
> it's the second regression and I am not satisfied with the patch for the
> first one, I will be reverting the change so we can look at the problems
> integrally.

>From a software engineer point, I fully support this decision.  sed(1) is
very important part of FreeBSD's repertoire, and any changes to it must not
be committed unless fully understood and well tested (on a personal note,
not being satisfied with the patch for the first [regression] is already a
good enough reason for a backout -- merely IMHO).

Thank you.

./danfe



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20160802154110.GA22737>