Bug#566822: (Fwd) Re: decode does not behave as documented

[gregor herrmann]

And another reply from upstream.

Cheers,
gregor

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From: Marc Lehmann <schmorp at schmorp.de>
To: gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Subject: Re: decode does not behave as documented
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:56:28 +0100

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 07:54:38PM +0100, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> this is Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/566822. Please consider
> looking into the issue.

this is a bogus bugreport, the submitter fails to understand overloading, see
"man overload". both documentation and code are correct, the conclusion of
the submitter is simply bogus.

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