svn commit: r303626 - head/www/xpi-firebug

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 5 21:09:40 UTC 2012


On 09/05/2012 14:01, Chris Rees wrote:
> 
> On 5 Sep 2012 21:54, "Doug Barton" <dougb at freebsd.org
> <mailto:dougb at freebsd.org>> wrote:
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>> On 09/05/2012 13:35, Florian Smeets wrote:
>> > On 04.09.12 18:35, Doug Barton wrote:
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>> >> Portmaster, and other tools, use this method extensively to read
>> >> those files, and this issue causes those tools to break while
>> >> processing those files.
>> >>
>> >
>> > You keep repeating this, without proof.
>>
>> Um, what kind of proof do you need? I wrote the code, I know how it
>> works, and I know that the parts of it that use "while read" to
>> process distinfo files breaks because of this issue. There have also
>> been other people who have raised this issue, as relates to their tools.
>>
>> I also showed you how to reproduce it yourself.
>>
>> How much more proof do you need?
> 
> I think Florian is asking for a real example, perhaps a portmaster command;
> 
> % portmaster reproduce-this-error

If Florian isn't interested in taking my word for it, he can look
through the code and find ways to reproduce it himself. :)

Doug

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    something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
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