On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 01:04:31AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > Even if we become bug compatible, we should keep a mode (via environment > or program setting) that warns when we are asked to do something > unspecified or different than the standard, or even behaves the way the > standard mandates.
If the standard makes sense and we follow it duefully, I don't think we should add bug compatibility. Instead we should document the differences explicitly and point to the standard. Just like this one has already been fixed upstream, future instances should be similar trivial. Martin