svn commit: r303047 - head/usr.bin/sed

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 2 15:41:11 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 10:03:20AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> [...]
> Thank you for the reports, this type of things make nice cases for the
> test suite.
> 
> There were good reasons this patch was not meant for 11.0-RELEASE. Given
> it's the second regression and I am not satisfied with the patch for the
> first one, I will be reverting the change so we can look at the problems
> integrally.

>From a software engineer point, I fully support this decision.  sed(1) is
very important part of FreeBSD's repertoire, and any changes to it must not
be committed unless fully understood and well tested (on a personal note,
not being satisfied with the patch for the first [regression] is already a
good enough reason for a backout -- merely IMHO).

Thank you.

./danfe


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