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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, qa@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local workarounds with no reported bugs
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:50:39
Message-Id: 20161018235013.4e08dcd9.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local workarounds with no reported bugs by Patrick Lauer
1 On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:09:44 +0200
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 10/17/16 09:23, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > Hello, everyone.
6 > >
7 > > I'd like to point out a major problem in Gentoo: there's a fair number
8 > > of developers who add various local workarounds to problems they meet
9 > > and don't bother to report a bug. Worst than that, this applies not
10 > > only for upstream problems but also to Gentoo eclass/ebuild-related
11 > > issues.
12 > >
13 > >
14 > > Example: udev people had problems with MULTILIB_WRAPPED_HEADERS
15 > > in the past. Instead of contacting me
16 > ... bus factor of 1, that's not a good strategy in general.
17
18 s/me/anyone on multilib team/. Does that make you happy? But yes, I
19 should add a big fat warning to the docs.
20
21 --
22 Best regards,
23 Michał Górny
24 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>