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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: games-fps/openarena
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:01:26
Message-Id: 4B8E5F96.3070604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: games-fps/openarena by Ryan Hill
1 On 03/03/2010 02:58 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 >> Dne 3.3.2010 12:32, Joshua Saddler napsal(a):
3 >>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:35:10 +0200
4 >>> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>> # Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> (03 Mar 2010)
7 >>>> # Masked for QA, security
8 >>>> #
9 >>>> # Internal copies of vuln. zlib, jpeg, speex and likely
10 >>>> # others
11 >>>> #
12 >>>> # http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255453
13 >>>> #
14 >>>> # Masked for removal in 60 days.
15 >>>> games-fps/openarena
16 >>>>
17 >>>
18 >>> Why? Why did you ignore the patches posted to the bug? Even Diego, the original reporter, commented that the patches fix the problems.[1]
19 >>>
20 >>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255453#c4
21 >>
22 >
23 > One of the reasons I left the treecleaner project was that it became apparent
24 > that people were more interested in dumping packages with simple problems
25 > than fixing them (which believe it or not, was what treecleaner was formed to
26 > do). Now they call it QA. :)
27 >
28 > I'm all for dropping broken crap, but things people use with working patches
29 > attached? QA is also about getting that stuff applied.
30
31 And now you have good 60 days to apply and test the package, and
32 co-ordinate it with upstream.
33
34 Don't forget to add yourself to metadata.xml, as it's a non-trivial task.
35
36 ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: games-fps/openarena Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o>