Comment 28 for bug 61463

I think the Ubuntu maintainers would do well to read http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119185 (if they haven't already). That thread is an object lesson in why being correct is not the same as being right.

Your point about compliance and decades of false assumptions by hundreds of software projects are valid. However if Ubuntu fixes something that breaks the rest of the world, then you are either being naive or disingenuous if you expect your users to fix the rest of the world for the privelege of working with Ubuntu.