From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OoLJ0-0002Qy-CJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:06:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09CADE0893 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rookery.halcy0n.com (rookery.halcy0n.com [69.72.242.50]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA8BE0872 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:27:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rookery.halcy0n.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A789DA5620; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:27:55 -0400 From: Mark Loeser To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] QA confusion: Upstream qa issues -> failing to install Message-ID: <20100825182755.GA6815@halcy0n.com> References: <201008251342.14948.bangert@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201008251342.14948.bangert@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Archives-Salt: 463e2b8f-b945-4967-8985-92d4f0ded35c X-Archives-Hash: 4d14bcb7fac4fd937d92b5bcbd6bc51a --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thilo Bangert said: > trying to install openssh on the dev profile one is greated with this=20 > bugger: >=20 > * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile > * fine but exhibit random runtime failures. > * closefromtest.c:46: warning: implicit declaration of function=20 > =E2=80=98closefrom=E2=80=99 >=20 > * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA > * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. > This looks really really weird. On the one hand we are saying: "Its a QA= =20 > issue but upstream should fix it." followed by "It so broke, we wont let= =20 > you install it." Personally I think we should be directing our users to our Bugzilla always. We really don't want to be pissing off upstreams if we put in a patch that triggers one of these QA warnings and it ends up being our problem and not theirs. --=20 Mark Loeser email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://www.halcy0n.com --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMdWCrCRZPokWLroQRAk3oAKDAB0wLgoUrtEhf250qlhsVtdCumQCcCez1 xVKaXGK+u/7wbSh6YrFJJjo= =kgGK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--