From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:33:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87mwhwxe98.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tz8oldk.fsf@netris.org> <87ob2c1njb.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbwkmdrc.fsf@netris.org> <20140212193105.GB4340@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDgUr-0007Wt-NY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:33:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDgUn-0003Rd-07 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:33:29 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:43883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WDgUm-0003RY-QT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:33:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20140212193105.GB4340@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:31:05 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge skribis: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +0000, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> While we're on the subject of 'bash', should we be applying the patches >> in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ ? > > Is there a chance of convincing the bash people to release bash 4.2.1? > It seems absurd to off-load the work of applying 45 patches from the last > three years on the users. Yeah, that=E2=80=99s annoying. Basically, these patches are the version control system of Bash (really!). So in my view, if the maintainer doesn=E2=80=99t publish a new version, then it means that users can live without these patches. I haven=E2=80=99t checked what the current patch set is about, though. Ludo=E2=80=99.