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List:       openbsd-bugs
Subject:    Re:
From:       Marc Espie <espie () nerim ! net>
Date:       2016-03-26 22:03:22
Message-ID: 20160326220322.GC2159 () lain ! home
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:07:25PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>         I concur with espie@'s commit message for r1.119 that I "deserve this."
>         That said, actually emitting the message "Couldn't change identity..."
>         would still be preferable.
> 
> No.
> 
> Adding layers of compatibility for between-release changes makes
> little sense.  It rescues a few rapid adoptors, but what it mostly
> does is: create cruft.
> 
> Eventually someone has to delete the cruft.  It turns out deleting of
> cruft is a difficult process.  So it does not get deleted as often as
> one expects.  So cruft builds up.
> 
> An excellent approach to dealing with the problem is to not create it
> in the first place.
> 
> If this was a vendor operating system with a multi year life cycle
> we would certainly follow your proposal... and accept money to maintain
> it and eventually delete it... 15 years later... maybe...

Well, the decent error message should help... it's a fatal error anyway,
nudging people into running sysmerge.

sthen got the right fix and I just came back from vacation.

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