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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:48:28
Message-Id: 20051214154248.GG22730@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:27:19AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 00:25 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:59:17PM -0600, Jory A. Pratt wrote:
4 > > > Only problem I see with this is binary packages. We can not control
5 > > > upstream binaries as everyone is aware of. So when does it become safe
6 > > > to override stable packages that have texrel's and executable stacks?
7 > >
8 > > no idea what you mean by "override", but here's a crazy idea ... ask
9 > > upstream to fix the issues. for example, we just reported executable
10 > > stacks with the ut2004 game and Ryan of epicgames was so kind as to
11 > > fix it up for us. some upstream peeps dont even know about these sort
12 > > of things until you point them out.
13 >
14 > Let me take that back again. This is resolved on amd64, but not on x86.
15 > There's 2 binaries. This also explains why I didn't see the error and
16 > closed the bug, I'm on amd64, whereas the bug reporter is on x86.
17
18 yeah, Ryan's one cool cat
19 -mike
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