Problems in Standards

This section contains remarks on the text versions of Linux standards. All the issues reported here have been found during requirements formalization in the OLVER and LSB Infrastructure projects. We have defined the following life cycle for each potential issue.

  • Initial problem detection during standard formalization.
  • Problem formulation and registration in the internal problem tracking system.
  • Periodical collective analysis of the validity and importance of registered problems.
  • Reporting all approved issues to the appropriate standard bodies.
  • Standard bodies decide whether to incorporate any changes in the standards or not.

Click on a problem number for detailed description. Click on a column header to change the sorting order.

No. Type Brief Added on Accepted Status
D0017 Misprint Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_context_release" 2007-10-30 Gnome Bugzilla 491957 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.15.0
S0582 Incompleteness Description of g_module_open says nothing about how to open the main program 2007-09-06
D0012 Proposal The documentation of the interface "g_date_is_leap_year" is incomplete 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491954 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0008 Proposal The documentation for the interfaces "g_io_channel_read_unichar" and "g_io_channel_write_unichar" does not describe their functionality 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491975 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.15.0
D0051 Misprint Misprint in specification of the interface "g_spawn_async_with_pipes" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 492677 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0050 Misprint Misprint in description of the structure "GThreadPool" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491959 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0029 Misprint Misprint in the description of the interfaces g_key_file_get_comment, g_key_file_set_comment and g_key_file_remove_comment 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491979 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0030 Misprint Misprint in the description of the interface "g_key_file_remove_comment" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491982 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0018 Misprint Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_hook_free" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491960 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0003 Misprint Mistype in the specification of the function "g_hook_list_invoke_check" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491965 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0015 Misprint Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_context_new" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491966 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0016 Misprint Misprint in the specification of the interface "g_main_context_acquire" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491967 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0054 Incompleteness The documentation does not mention the restriction for the values of the parameter "flags" of the interface "g_spawn_sync" 2007-09-04 Gnome Bugzilla 491968 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0011 Incompleteness The documentation of the interface "g_realloc" is incomplete 2007-09-03 Gnome Bugzilla 491969 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0013 Incompletness The documentation for the interface "g_date_clamp" is incomplete 2007-09-03 Gnome Bugzilla 491970 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16
D0014 Incompleteness The documentation of the interface "g_main_context_iteration" does not completely describe it's functionality for the "may_block" parameter 2007-09-03 Gnome Bugzilla 491974 Fixed in gtk-glib - 2.16