Thread: remove some ancient port hacks
There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them. See attached patches. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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On 12.08.2020 09:12, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear > to have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove > them. See attached patches. > Hi Peter, This is really archeology Check for b20.1 as it was released in 1998. No problem at all to remove it Regards Marco Cygwin Package Maintainer
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to > have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them. See > attached patches. +1 for removing these. >10y age is not sufficient justification by itself; if systems that shipped with the defect were not yet EOL, that would tend to justify waiting longer. For these particular hacks, though, affected systems are both old and EOL.
On 2020-08-12 10:18, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 12.08.2020 09:12, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear >> to have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove >> them. See attached patches. >> > > Hi Peter, > This is really archeology > > Check for b20.1 > > as it was released in 1998. > No problem at all to remove it Committed. Thanks for the feedback. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
On 2020-08-13 05:22, Noah Misch wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to >> have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them. See >> attached patches. > > +1 for removing these. >10y age is not sufficient justification by itself; if > systems that shipped with the defect were not yet EOL, that would tend to > justify waiting longer. For these particular hacks, though, affected systems > are both old and EOL. done In this case, the bug was fixed in the stable release track of this OS, so the only way to still be affected would be if you had never installed any OS patches in 10 years, which is clearly unreasonable. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services