Re: [PATCH] kdesu broken

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 
> > So at what point do we just admit that the commit that caused all this was 
> > a buggy pile of sh*t and just revert it?
> 
> Also, I'm not sure though, I guess it depends on the bug which was fixed
> by the commit.

It doesn't really.

The fact is, we don't accept "fix one bug, introduce another" code. We're 
much better off with _old_ bugs than with new ones.

I'd love to have both the old and the new fixed, but I'm not seeing a lot 
of progress on this new bug, and at some point I'm going to have to decide 
to just revert the commit that caused this whole breakage, until a fix 
that doesn't cause new problems can be worked out.

			Linus
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