calendar(1) regressions
Julian H. Stacey
jhs at berklix.com
Tue Dec 11 02:52:51 UTC 2012
"Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote:
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> On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 16:27:39 +0200, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
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> > Hi!
> >
> > On 2012-12-10, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> >>> Unfortunately r205821 [1] has caused several regressions to calendar(1).
> >>> Relevant PRs:
> >>>
> >>> bin/157718
> >>> bin/162211
> >>> bin/168785
> >>> bin/170930
> >>
> >> I think we fix bugs rather than revert the commits.
> >
> > Of course it's preferred but I didn't see any progress happening. As a
> > result some of the basic functionality is broken (especially in
> > stable/8). Maybe I should have debugged and fixed those bugs but I
> > wasn't really keen to debug a large commit adding mostly features which
> > I don't care much.
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> IIRC the main issue in 8 was that debug output was appearing as a
> matter of course. It would be relatively trivial to MF9 (i.e. copy
> the 9-STABLE version), but of course that would only solve part of the
> problem. Do you want an MFC to 8 when I'm done?
>
> Greg
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Hi Greg
I too filed send-prs re. rgeression bugs in recent broken calendar,
hopefully you can look/ fix please.
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/calendar/REAME.JHS
bin/15182
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/calendar/send-pr.impossible_date.no_customise
bin/157718
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/calendar/core_dump_shell.no_customise
bin/162211
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/calendar/send-pr.first_last_in_month.no_customise
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PS for Anyone, doesnt need to be Greg
misc/157748
This PR is NOT a regression coding error, but corrections & additions
for a lot of badly sorted & incorrect src/ data in wrong calendar files
etc. It doesn't need a programmer to fix it, any commiter could
make corrections & also someone with a sense of orthogonality could
shuffle data around, as some current calendar data in src/ is in wrong
files, & also in some cases date is wrong.
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.holiday.send-pr
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/gen/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/
Cheers,
Julian
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