Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > We don't avoid marking stable code > > that, say, mallocs lots of space, then fills it with some calculated > > numbers (for example, the first million prime numbers), even though a > > better program would allow for that data to be shared. > > no one said that broken code with TEXTRELs cannot be marked stable > > they're something to be fixed down the road as time permits
This I completely agree with, but was not what was being pushed as policy for
the x86 arch team. If a package reintroduces textrels or such, I don't see
the problem with marking it stable personally. The issues listed don't seem
to warrant that.
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