[gentoo-dev-announce] debug USE flag misuse

[Diego E. 'Flameeyes']

There seem to be a number of packages in the tree right now that misuse
the debug USE flag, by using it to append -g, -O, or filtering flags. If
you maintain such a package please fix it so that it does _not_ do that.

The description of the debug USE flag from the profile/use.desc file is
the following:

Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want
to get meaningful backtraces see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml

Please check the linked documentation or my blog post[1] on the matter
if you want to understand the reasoning. I'll be dropping the flag and
its context from now on if I stumble across it, without further
warnings.

[1] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/16/mailbox-about-the-debug-use-flag
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Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes”
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

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