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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:48:30 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0 CODE FREEZE vs patches to lpr/lpc
Message-ID:  <20000125114830.E56451@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <v04210100b4b2723017bb@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001241144120.79253-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <v04210100b4b2723017bb@[128.113.24.47]>

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If it's easy I'll look at it.  (I made a commit to lpr myself last
week anyway.)

Joe

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 05:08:56PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > > On the 29th of January, I'll be freezing the -current branch (well,
> > > OK, the trunk).  That means NO commits without my review first ...
> 
> Could someone commit the 2-line bug fix in bin/15728 before yet
> another system release goes out the door?
> 
> Jan  7th, 1999: problem first reported in bin/9362
> Sep  9th, 1999: fix first described (with patch) in bin/13549
> Nov 18th, 1999: fix acknowledged by another person in bin/14975,
>                  although the update there is "backwards" (it would
>                  turn a FIXED source code to become the UNFIXED one,
>                  because it's a 'diff cmds cmds.orig').
> Dec 27th, 1999: slightly prettier version of the Sept 9th patch is
>                  sent in and becomes bin/15728.
> 
> There some other lpr/lpd PR's which look like they should go in,
> and I have more lpr/lpd patches to write up sometime, but I figure
> if I can't get this damn 2-line fix committed then there isn't
> much point pursuing any other printing improvements.  It's a
> trivial fix to an obvious and 100% reproducible bug, and yet it
> just sits there.  Note this is not the somewhat more controversial
> change (to 'lpr -r') that I was pursuing earlier this month, as it
> might be a bit too close to the code freeze to put that one in.
> 
> Given that lpr/lpd seems to be very low priority in most committers
> queues, is there any way to expedite changes like these?  I'm
> trying avoid any ranting or raving, but this has been pretty
> exasperating.
> 
> 
> ---
> Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

-- 
Josef Karthauser	FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how
Technical Manager	deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org)
Pavilion Internet plc.  [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk]


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