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Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> said: |
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> trying to install openssh on the dev profile one is greated with this |
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> bugger: |
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> * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile |
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> * fine but exhibit random runtime failures. |
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> * closefromtest.c:46: warning: implicit declaration of function |
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> ‘closefrom’ |
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> * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA |
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> * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. |
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> This looks really really weird. On the one hand we are saying: "Its a QA |
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> issue but upstream should fix it." followed by "It so broke, we wont let |
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> you install it." |
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Personally I think we should be directing our users to our Bugzilla |
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always. We really don't want to be pissing off upstreams if we put in a |
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patch that triggers one of these QA warnings and it ends up being our |
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problem and not theirs. |
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Mark Loeser |
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email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org |
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email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com |
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web - http://www.halcy0n.com |