Re: Status of revivesa

["Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 16:34:06 +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:

> There's one non-upgrade scenario that nobody (i think) has considered in
> that thread:  often we get PRs from people who use a release, and
> usually the user is asked to try a -current kernel at some point, either
> to check if the issue is already fixed, or after someone thinks it has
> been fixed.  One way around that is to push that compat library into -3
> and -4.  That would make future upgrade easier anyway.
> 
> The main issue with that approach is that it will have to be very
> carefully documented, and I don't think just adding a paragraph in the
> release notes will be enough.

Let's just embed that stupid compat lib into mfs and add a big of
magic for old ld.so to find it there :)

SY, Uwe
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