Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-04-08 13:50:28) > Justus Winter, le Tue 08 Apr 2014 13:46:26 +0200, a écrit : > > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-04-08 02:18:13) > > > Well, I'm not the one to be convinced: it's only Roland which can ack > > > the glibc part, and thus the whole idea of the RPC addition. One "just" > > > needs to explain him why we really need it. > > > > I thought that this patch series was necessary for fakeroot-hurd. > > Perhaps as well,
No, it's really not. My build host is running the packages without this patch series and it is happily building packages using fakeroot-hurd. > but it's not the original rationale for the patch, so Roland is > still with the old justification which was a corner case of shell > scripts, and still I don't think he was really told what the issue > is. No, he won't have time to read all of > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28934, we have to give him a clear > short summary. Someone else has to do that. I've been verbally abused by him on this list before. If I ever feel the need for that again I'll join the Linux developer community instead. If someone else wants to pick up, this version of the patch series is a good start. Justus
