[Bug 195929] usr.bin/sed -- constify, remove line-length limits

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Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #35 from Pedro F. Giffuni <pfg at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Mikhail Teterin from comment #34)

>> The patch still required some changes for 12-current and there
>> are sufficient differences it may not be fun to merge to 10-stable.
> Why are there such differences between branches? Sed is a purely
> user-space program and depends neither on anything unusual in the
> kernel, nor on any libraries, that may only be present in newer
> releases.

There are changes affecting backwards compatibility. Anything that means
you may have to rewrite you scripts during a minor upgrade is not good.
Other committers take decisions about their own changes: in my case,
r297602 which is really minor is something that I am not considering
to MFC.

> > Detected by running the gsed tests.
> Maybe, the triggered test should be added to our suit?

Yes but consider, within reason, there would be no license issues (IANAL).

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