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On 16 Apr 2016 09:23, Patrick Lauer wrote: |
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> So why on earth are we applying a random patch that upstream is not |
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> using |
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not everyone uses glibc, and glibc *is* moving in this direction. Gentoo |
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is simply accelerating the change ... otherwise glibc will take longer to |
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do the actual migration. packages failing to build under glibc already |
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fail to build in other environments. |
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> *and* unleashing it on ~arch without any of the usual precautions |
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> like masking the package until some of the issues have been smoked out? |
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it was masked for a while, some bugs were fixed, but no new ones were |
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really being found. so in the absence of data showing a problem, |
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unmasking is normal. |
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-mike |
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