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From: Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:52:34
Message-Id: 1503410256.8909.17.camel@st.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc by Nils Freydank
1 On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 15:34 +0200, Nils Freydank wrote:
2 > Am Dienstag, 22. August 2017, 09:01:07 CEST schrieb Raffaele Belardi:
3 > > […]
4 > > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604430
5 > > > [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575232
6 > >
7 > > Just as follow up, inspired by [2] I fixed the mythtv build issue
8 > > by
9 > > adding #include <sys/sysmacros.h> to videosource.cpp and continuing
10 > > the
11 > > build with ebuild instead of emerge.
12 >
13 > Great! In general, to improve Gentoo a bit further, you could create
14 > a patch
15 > at this point, test applying it via /etc/portage/patches/ and add it
16 > to the
17 > bugtracker (or paste it here or in IRC asking someone to paste it in
18 > your
19 > name) ;-)
20
21 I agree that would be the correct way. My intention was to add a
22 comment in the bugtracker stating the above but things have already
23 evolved as you noticed.
24
25 > (I guess you can avoid that in this case as another dev said that bug
26 > is fixed
27 > upstream now.)
28 >
29 > BTW, mythtv has no maintainer, might you be interested in a proxied
30 > maintainership?
31
32 Not sure about the implications (read: effort), mythtv is a huge
33 beast...
34
35 raffaele