[gentoo-dev] Re: Bug voting

[Gabriel Ebner <ge@gabrielebner.at>]

Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org> writes:

> As a user, or anyone really, your expectations are a bit too high.

Well, I was assuming fixing those bugs involved only adding the arch
to the KEYWORDS.  But if the devs actually test the package (which
they might not have ever used nor have an idea on how to test it
without reading the docs), that's really a bit much to expect from
volunteers.  So you're right -- I'm in no position to demand anything
at all.

> Let's take one of the bugs you filed, for instance --
> dev-util/darcs:
>
> ...which depends on virtual/ghc (not currently available), wxhaskell (not 
> currently available) which in turn depends on haddock (not currently 
> available).

Well, bugs are filed for all of them.

> You're just in luck that I've been using darcs for the past week or so, and 
> if I give it one more pass tonight, I will make those packages available. 
> And as Ciaran pointed out, we don't blindly keyword packages just because 
> they manage to compile.

Thanks.

        Gabriel.


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