gnu/153945: Update sort with 15 upstream patches

Andrey Chernov ache at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Mar 26 18:27:19 UTC 2011


On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 05:30:14PM +0000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR gnu/153945; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip at tutopia.com>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: gnu/153945: Update sort with 15 upstream patches
> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:17:41 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>  Let's just close this.
>  
>  The patches didn't preserve the GNU versioning and we
>  should focus on replacing this instead of updating it.

I disagree. There is no point to preserve GNU versioning, and replacing 
whole thing with the same functionlaity+speed will be really state of art 
definitely not in the near future.

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