Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2417 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Sunday 2008-04-06 at 12:39 -0400, Sam Clemens wrote:

> >  It is not as simple as that.
> >
> >  If a different set of options corrected the problem they found, they would
> >  have said so and write up the correct encantation. But no, they said it
> >  was a bug.
> >
> >  It has to be some bug, then, probably corrected since, or maybe not. I
> >  can't say unless they say what the bug was.
>
> If it was an actual bug, then tar would be completely broken,
> and not fit for use under any circumstance.

If he says "bug" then I have to trust him and think it was a bug. A bug 
doesn't have to affect all uses of a program.

I know the current kernel we use has bugs... I know some of them. Is the 
kernel unfit for use under any circumstance, then?


> The editor was just lazy... or, giving him the benefit of
> the doubt, didn't realize that these flags had been created
> and were now available.

I'll grant him laziness, for not specifying the bug.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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