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 1FMoXE-0001l2-AI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:49:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2OFkY5U016903; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:46:34 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2OFdrrS001761 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:39:54 GMT Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FMoOB-0000gm-AK for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:39:47 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FMoMN-0004aX-PB for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:37:55 +0000 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:37:52 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support Message-ID: <20060324153752.339a8a03@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <4423B8DF.3000803@gentoo.org> References: <441F35B9.8000406@gentoo.org> <4421836A.8040000@gentoo.org> <1143123468.14434.5.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1143127901.14434.33.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1143137722.14434.48.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20060323184148.73e44f21@snowdrop.home> <4422EF83.6000705@gentoo.org> <20060324010328.3432ef99@snowdrop.home> <4423B8DF.3000803@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.13; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_QbKqHvWlsWvE+9g1iW0d+CO; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 65c7a1a6-505c-43ae-a351-507d9161e786 X-Archives-Hash: 71d064e27a67019d49405a46a0091fbe --Sig_QbKqHvWlsWvE+9g1iW0d+CO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:16:15 +0100 Jakub Moc wrote: | We get innundated with tons of bogus bug reports every day, overlays | or not - see the number of invalid/duplicate bugs flowing every days. | We got a couple of bugs in last two a three days basically stating | "ZOMG, glibc downgrade broke my system, t3h Gentoo bug!!11!!" - so | what? They get marked as invalid, live goes on. This argument really | doesn't stand. They get marked as invalid after how long? There're some really subtle ways in which libraries can screw things up. I've dealt with far too many bug reports where it took a heck of a lot of debugging before it became clear that the cause was some dodgy external stuff. And that was with me understanding the packages in question -- there's no way bug wranglers could've figured it out. | As this should be a separate thread, just one reason or example - I'm | really uncomfortable e.g. w/ QA intervening in overlays stuff, | considering the current way QA is being done in Gentoo... I'm really uncomfortable with QA intervening anywhere. It would be far nicer if the appropriate developers ensured that they weren't breaking anything. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_QbKqHvWlsWvE+9g1iW0d+CO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEJBJT96zL6DUtXhERAuoVAJ9sfL62p5EpqF5A0NVVBymEuqyDUACgo1r0 +XooD+2fJAgLJRFDGiTPDsM= =hMKQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_QbKqHvWlsWvE+9g1iW0d+CO-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list