From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmYrk-0004St-06 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:48:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBEFkM6m014936; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:46:22 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBEFgn7m007586 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:42:49 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EmYmG-0005I3-Re for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:42:48 +0000 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:42:48 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy Message-ID: <20051214154248.GG22730@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <20051213205903.GA27045@aerie.halcy0n.com> <439F6055.1090508@gentoo.org> <20051214002557.GB1863@toucan.gentoo.org> <1134574040.3773.28.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1134574040.3773.28.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 9f9cccb4-69fd-4083-b27e-d9008d835d97 X-Archives-Hash: bfbf62e80358b22f25685a39267e0a2c On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:27:19AM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 00:25 +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:59:17PM -0600, Jory A. Pratt wrote: > > > Only problem I see with this is binary packages. We can not control > > > upstream binaries as everyone is aware of. So when does it become safe > > > to override stable packages that have texrel's and executable stacks? > > > > no idea what you mean by "override", but here's a crazy idea ... ask > > upstream to fix the issues. for example, we just reported executable > > stacks with the ut2004 game and Ryan of epicgames was so kind as to > > fix it up for us. some upstream peeps dont even know about these sort > > of things until you point them out. > > Let me take that back again. This is resolved on amd64, but not on x86. > There's 2 binaries. This also explains why I didn't see the error and > closed the bug, I'm on amd64, whereas the bug reporter is on x86. yeah, Ryan's one cool cat -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list