Gordon Messmer wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
The Centos project follows the requirements, replacing only what is
necessary so they maintain bug for bug compatibility
IIRC, the phrase "bug for bug compatibility" was used by the Wine
project to describe the fact that their implementation matches Windows
behavior, which is sometimes "buggy" with regards to their
documentation. If the Wine project built an implementation that was
faithful to the documentation, some Windows applications which relied on
the actual behavior of Windows (buggy though it may be) would not work.
There is no reason to believe that the CentOS group will not correct
bugs simply because Red Hat does not. Their aim is binary, not "bug for
bug" compatibility.
Can we please avoid using that phrase to describe Linux distributions?
Les is correct here. CentOS folks have on several occasions said that
they won't fix bugs over and above what Red Hat does to maintain
compatibility.
See for example,
http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/the-oracle-unbreakable-linux-incompatibility
Rahul
