On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:25:24PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: > While I understand both the reluctance to have a patch at all and the > distaste for the ubuntu patch, this bug is an ugly wart on our distribution. > I would really like to see *some* sort of patch go forward on this, > so that debian boxes identify themselves correctly by default. >
No. I've previously explained that I do not wish to have to make users deal with an inevitable behaviour change between some downstream patch and the way upstream ends up doing it. FWIW, it looks like they're going to have a new version that implements it soon. I had lunch with upstream a couple of weeks ago and they mentioned they were working on it. regards Andrew
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