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by sillystuff
1399 days ago
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I think this is asking that we avoid additional episodes like the Redhat gcc "2.96" issue where redhat took cvs head, and slapped a version number on it that would have been the next release and shipped it with their "stable" distribution. GCC devs got tons of complaints about their shipping a broken compiler that couldn't compile the kernel and tracked it down to redhat shipping pre-release WIP software as if it were the new release version. GCC completely skipped the 2.96 version number, so "2.96" ended up being a redhat exclusive-- the fake 2.96 would have been a recurring source of pain due to confused redhat users making bug reports to the gcc project. https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.htm... |
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