5 ms·
Out of curiosity: What did Drepper do? A quick DDG/Google search didn't turn up anything. EDIT: Actually, searching for "Ulrich Drepper asshole" did turn up so
by NanoCoaster 7y ago
Out of curiosity: What did Drepper do? A quick DDG/Google search didn't turn up anything.
EDIT: Actually, searching for "Ulrich Drepper asshole" did turn up some stuff. I'd still be interested, as the stuff I found was rather general.
- tudelo 7y agoThis seems that it could be upsetting to some people https://udrepper.livejournal.com/7326.html https://udrepper.livejournal.com/7326.html
- cryptonector 7y agoI'd never seen that one. Wow!!
- coleifer 7y agoDid you bother to read? It's about the combinatorial explosion that happens when you need to support lots of configurations. It's apolitical.
- kstrauser 7y agoYeah, that's one of the few things I've seen from Drepper that actually seemed reasonable and defensible.
- big_chungus 7y agoAm I missing the part that makes it upsetting? I was expecting something full of cusses and ad-hominems.
- cryptonector 7y agoYou're going down an end-less rathole... Ulrich made tons of bad technical decisions, and mistreated everyone who disagreed with him, was the reason Debian forked glibc for a long time, etc. There are some famous bugzillas that are utterly unexplainable.
- AceJohnny2 7y agoHere's one notorious example of Drepper's behavior: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980 (2007) "gethostbyname() etc break for /etc/hosts with both ::1 and 127.0.0.1 localhost entries" Initially closed by Drepper as "WONTFIX" or "NOTABUG" (can't find state history and it's been a while!) with dismissive comments, continuing to do so after people patiently explained how this was a real issue. It was eventually resolved (I don't know by whom)
- ur-whale 7y agoHere's a taste: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980