Re: July 2024 stabilization week

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 01:39:23PM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
T> On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 01:00:11AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
T> T> This is an automated email to inform you that the July 2024 stabilization week
T> T> started with FreeBSD/main at main-n271321-9ae91f59c500, which was tagged as
T> T> main-stabweek-2024-Jul.
T> 
T> Testing at Netflix didn't discover any stability or performance regressions
T> compared to June stabweek snapshot.  My personal use in a desktop environment
T> also didn't show any problems.  Everybody are advised to update their FreeBSD
T> 15.0-CURRENT :)

Belatedly we have found a kind of regression in main-stabweek-2024-Jul.  There
is a POLA breaking behavior change in the new version of bsddialog(1).  The
change is clearly documented in the original commit message:

commit ce220b82ad546d3518a805750e5ee6add73f1fbf
Author: Alfonso Siciliano <alf.siciliano@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat May 25 02:42:46 2024 +0200

    change: --form and --mixedgauge do not print field input to output if <fieldlen> <= 0


That means if you have any scripting using 'bsddialog --form' with readonly
values, you would need to adjust your scripts, otherwise your variables would
be messed up, leading to any possible kind of bugs.

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Gleb Smirnoff