bug#12427: Why does OpenSuSE disabled the default of allowing multi-core use in Coreutils 'sort'??

[Eric Blake]

On 09/12/2012 04:08 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
>>
>> Linda Walsh wrote:
>> ...
>>>     Do you have reason to believe they have buggy code by default?
>>> I'll Cc'  the coreutils bug-list on this    and          >> open a
>>> bug-report << on this           as should have been done originally,
>>> and maybe your questions can be addressed.
>>
>> Hi Linda,
>>
>> Do you realize that by merely sending a message to bug-coreutils,
>> you have created an entry in our bug-tracking software?
> ----
> Did you read the above?
> *Ahem*.  "Do you realize that merely by closing out the bug and not
> addressing the issue you defeated the whole point of reporting
> a downstream distributor's concern"?

But you have not conveyed what the downstream distributor's concern
actually was.  Without telling us what the bug is, then for all we know,
there IS no upstream bug, just a downstream decision to fork.  If you
can tell us an actual problem, or get the downstream distributor to do
likewise, then we will gladly reopen this bug and address the topic.
But in the meantime, discussion would have been better on the discussion
list instead of creating a bug for a non-bug-report.

> I don't think
> closing it out without addressing the downstream integrator's
> concern (openSuSE), is the clearest response that one might
> make.

Until you identify the downstream integrator's concern, we have to
assume that it is their personal choice to fork things (the GPL allows
that after all), and not an upstream bug.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
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