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Is this the longest time between request/bug and fix?

It's in a different field, and I'm being very tongue-in-cheek - but the Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the US Constitution has it beat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_th...

Cool link

Last month there was a patch for a 35-year old bug in patch: http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-35-year-old-bug-in-patc...

If it does have that title, there are other bugs that are almost as old in Thunderbird and still open, so it might not hold the record for long if someone gets around to fixing any of those.

For example, bug 41929 [1] is only 6 months younger. Briefly, you cannot have two different IMAP accounts in Thunderbird that have the same username and host but different ports.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41929

I think Open Office and Libre Office have some contenders back from Star Office days. I still use LO daily though.

Most likely there is a bug filed somewhere that asks for removing most of the parentheses from LISP. :)

In a way, that's how we got Dylan.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233

16 years and still pending! All bets are off for this dark horse

It has been 21 years since people asked to have SRV DNS resource record support in Mozilla.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/dns-srv-record-use-by-clients.html

Now my opinion may seem controversial but I personally believe having feature requests that are old enough to legally drink is not a sign of healthy project management

The bug is closed. What more do you expect project management to do?

I’m thinking that they might implement HTTPS and SVCB records, once standardized:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-01

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