On 9/10/18 10:56 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 9/10/18 10:51 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>> Consider again the bug that started this. The maintainer had not built
>> this configuration. None of the arch teams had built this
>> configuration until I did for the last architecture Cc'd. The patch
>> committed doesn't change anything installed on the system, if not for
>> Werror preventing the code from building.
> 
> one way to look at it though, is that it is a valuable upstream
> contribution that this configuration produces the error, so Gentoo is
> contributing to upstream development because of it.
> 

Adding to this, that arch testing for stabilization didn't catch this
might say more about our stabilization procedures than the quality of
the upstream package (that in this case routinely includes patches to
fix these issues). And they are mostly cought in testing (~arch)

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