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From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:49:44
Message-Id: 20080727184809.8fcdeae4.genone@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New policy: LDFLAGS should be respected by Jeremy Olexa
1 On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:45:29 -0500
2 Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
5 > > It will at least allow QA team to fix such bugs where patches are
6 > > already available.
7 >
8 > So, if bugs are being fixed why is there a need to fix something that
9 > isn't broken with regards to a policy _needed_ to enforce this
10 > action? Are bugs being ignored or RESOLVED, WONTFIX?
11 >
12 > Hypothetically, if there was such a policy and there was 100's of
13 > bugs filed with patches (maintainers should handle the patches
14 > anyway)
15
16 "Should" being the keyword here. Also assumes that all packages are
17 actually maintained. I guess the wording of the original request should
18 have been more like "is anyone against QA fixing packages that ignore
19 LDFLAGS?".
20
21 Marius