remove some ancient port hacks

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#1Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net

There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear
to have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove
them. See attached patches.

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Attachments:

0001-Remove-obsolete-HAVE_BUGGY_SOLARIS_STRTOD.patchtext/plain; charset=UTF-8; name=0001-Remove-obsolete-HAVE_BUGGY_SOLARIS_STRTOD.patch; x-mac-creator=0; x-mac-type=0Download+0-37
0002-Remove-obsolete-cygwin.h-hack.patchtext/plain; charset=UTF-8; name=0002-Remove-obsolete-cygwin.h-hack.patch; x-mac-creator=0; x-mac-type=0Download+0-10
#2Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#1)
Re: remove some ancient port hacks

On 12.08.2020 09:12, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear
to have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove
them.  See attached patches.

Hi Peter,
This is really archeology

Check for b20.1

as it was released in 1998.
No problem at all to remove it

Regards Marco
Cygwin Package Maintainer

#3Noah Misch
noah@leadboat.com
In reply to: Peter Eisentraut (#1)
Re: remove some ancient port hacks

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to
have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them. See
attached patches.

+1 for removing these. >10y age is not sufficient justification by itself; if
systems that shipped with the defect were not yet EOL, that would tend to
justify waiting longer. For these particular hacks, though, affected systems
are both old and EOL.

#4Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Marco Atzeri (#2)
Re: remove some ancient port hacks

On 2020-08-12 10:18, Marco Atzeri wrote:

On 12.08.2020 09:12, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear
to have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove
them.  See attached patches.

Hi Peter,
This is really archeology

Check for b20.1

as it was released in 1998.
No problem at all to remove it

Committed. Thanks for the feedback.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

#5Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Noah Misch (#3)
Re: remove some ancient port hacks

On 2020-08-13 05:22, Noah Misch wrote:

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to
have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them. See
attached patches.

+1 for removing these. >10y age is not sufficient justification by itself; if
systems that shipped with the defect were not yet EOL, that would tend to
justify waiting longer. For these particular hacks, though, affected systems
are both old and EOL.

done

In this case, the bug was fixed in the stable release track of this OS,
so the only way to still be affected would be if you had never installed
any OS patches in 10 years, which is clearly unreasonable.

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services