From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Quantity of open bugs
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:16:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1299950206.2520.3.camel@raven.home.flameeyes.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110312170944.GA15228@comet>
Il giorno sab, 12/03/2011 alle 11.09 -0600, Donnie Berkholz ha scritto:
>
>
> I'm assuming you're talking only about broken builds here and not
> "QA-only" bugs. My opinion is that if a tinderbox QA script is the
> only
> thing finding a nonfatal bug, and it's never reported or CC'd by a
> user,
> then it's about as low priority as you can get.
Not really. An user would never report that the package is bundling
libraries, but that is actually pretty high in priority as it can lead
to hidden security issues already resolved in the original library to
sneak in the system.
At the same time, very few users report ignored variables (CC, CFLAGS,
LDFLAGS, ...) but they are just the same a problem. Especially when
hardening flags are not used at all.
> So this might serve as a pointer to potentially unmaintained
> packages,
> but clearly more investigation is required before removal.
There is always the need to do manual investigation. But in general when
you see a package that
- ignores LDFLAGS;
- shows fortify source warnings;
- ignores CC;
- misuses autotools;
- bundle libraries.
you can pretty safely assume neither somebody is looking after it, nor
using it.
--
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2011-03-10 20:25 ` [gentoo-dev] Quantity of open bugs Kevin F. Quinn
2011-03-10 21:03 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-03-10 21:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Chris Richards
2011-03-11 4:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2011-03-11 8:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alec Warner
2011-03-11 8:25 ` George Prowse
2011-03-11 14:13 ` Thomas Kahle
2011-03-12 14:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2011-03-12 17:09 ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-03-12 17:16 ` Diego Elio Pettenò [this message]
2011-03-16 4:17 ` Jeroen Roovers
2011-03-16 9:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tomáš Chvátal
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