Gentoo Archives: gentoo-qa

From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>
To: gentoo-qa@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] QA confusion: Upstream qa issues -> failing to install
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:06:38
Message-Id: 20100825182755.GA6815@halcy0n.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-qa] QA confusion: Upstream qa issues -> failing to install by Thilo Bangert
1 Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> said:
2 > trying to install openssh on the dev profile one is greated with this
3 > bugger:
4 >
5 > * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
6 > * fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
7 > * closefromtest.c:46: warning: implicit declaration of function
8 > ‘closefrom’
9 >
10 > * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA
11 > * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.
12
13
14 > This looks really really weird. On the one hand we are saying: "Its a QA
15 > issue but upstream should fix it." followed by "It so broke, we wont let
16 > you install it."
17
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19 Personally I think we should be directing our users to our Bugzilla
20 always. We really don't want to be pissing off upstreams if we put in a
21 patch that triggers one of these QA warnings and it ends up being our
22 problem and not theirs.
23
24 --
25 Mark Loeser
26 email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
27 email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
28 web - http://www.halcy0n.com

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