Re: CVS commit: src/external/mit/expat/dist

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > Regardless of whether or not you got approval from releng, I 
> > think it's inappropriate to make major or controversial changes 
> > without public discussion.
>
> As far as I can tell from reading the PR you were the only 
> objecting to it.  Concerning your objection:

This is not the right place to discuss that.

> > The only semi-public discussion that I am aware of was in the 
> > comments on PR 40346, where there was not consensus that adding 
> > expat to base was a good idea.  One of the last comments there 
> > said that discussion on that issue should go to tech-userlevel, 
> > but there was no discussion in tech-userlevel.
>
> Well, it is on the list of "Important bugs" for NetBSD 6.0.  So 
> my assumption was that it should be fixed.

If the fix involves major changes to base, then those major 
changes should be discussed in tech-userlevel.  That's the essence 
of my objection.

--apb (Alan Barrett)