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From: Serkan Kaba <serkan@g.o>
Subject: Re: Remember: workarounds don't warrant RESO FIXED!
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:48:11 +0200
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I think, resolving as UPSTREAM might be more logical as we can't force
every upstream to fix their *borked* build system and the bug will be
left open forever.

Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò yazmış:
> Guys, please remember that if you work something around, you should
> _not_ close the bug as RESO FIXED but keep the bug open so that the
> issue can be addressed and fixed _properly_. Otherwise we'll end up with
> ebuilds full of workarounds without even documentation on why the
> workaround is applied!
> 
> With workarounds I mean, as examples:
> 
> - FEATURES=test failures;
> - broken parallel make that requires -j1;
> - flags filtering, included -Wl,--no-as-needed appending
> 
> This is important because:
> 
> a) we want test to work or get fixed upstream;
> b) we want users to get parallel build if they request parallel build;
> c) we want --as-needed to be used, not ignored.
> 
> If the bug is open and comes out on searches and all the rest, then we
> have higher chances that someone might _fix_ it, without having to look
> to see if there actually is one...
> 
> Thanks!
> 

- --
Sincerely,
Serkan KABA
Gentoo/Java
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