* Miklos Szeredi (mszeredi@suse.cz) wrote:
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> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 14:29 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Well, you know the implications of leaving these known bugs open more than
> > me. If you think some of them are really not needed, I'm fine with this,
> > but some definitely fix real bugs (judging by the code and the comments).
> 
> Yeah.  Perhaps there should also be a rule, that -stable patches for
> EXPERIMENTAL stuff (like ecryptfs) are automatically rejected.  And then
> they wouldn't increase the workload for the people collecting/reviewing
> the stable series.

Both users and distros enable code marked EXPERIMENTAL.  It's not
that uncommon for code to get stuck in EXPERIMENTAL long after it's in
general use.

thanks,
-chris
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