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pg83today at 12:59 AM2 repliesview on HN

On the one hand, this is technically true, but on the other, what serious issues do you know that will cause problems in practice? I run tests on 1,000 of the most popular Debian packages.


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silisilitoday at 6:51 AM

Not anymore, but for -years- it did DNS wrong because of the author being pedantic about an RFC wording.

skydhashtoday at 2:19 AM

Mostly about precompiled libraries (proprietary software) and libraries and software that use GNU extensions.