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stty: bug or feature?

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Message #22 received at 25398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Dave B <g8kbv <at> uku.co.uk>, 25398 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25398: stty: bug or feature?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:25:15 +0000

On 11/01/17 10:17, Dave B wrote:
> Any idea what sort of time scale (months/years?) It may take for the fix
> to propagate (if it would do that) through all the various aggregation
> processes so as to appear in the regular system updates for the various
> distributions of Linux?   I'm fairly sure there are lots of Arduino
> users out there who use Linux who would very much appreciate it too,
> assuming it does fix the problem...

It depends.
The fix is isolated and not that risky,
so would be a good candidate to backport in distros.
This would be a standard procedure for them,
so would be a valid request to them.

thanks,
Pádraig

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