From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R7Etz-0006Kx-1d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:11:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFC7121C4DF; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361D821C100 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 663CF1B4031 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcdn13 with SMTP id n13so2525438vcd.40 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.76.227 with SMTP id n3mr3806666vdw.108.1316819427293; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.188.136 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:10:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Matt Turner Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:10:07 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a20644279285acfabc851553b844e886 On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 > packages currently in the tree. =A0The maintainer of zlib pushed those > revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zli= b > incompatible with upstream. =A0As a result, a lot of packages stopped > building. =A0Bug reports for broken packages come in and then are being > modified to fit Gentoo's zlib. > > Breaking compatibility with upstream zlib also means that non-portage > software, the ones I install with "./configure --prefix=3D$HOME/usr && ma= ke > install", also won't build. > > It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. =A0The bug that dea= ls > with it was locked from public view: > > =A0https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D383179 > > Is there a plan for this, or will we have to live with what is essentiall= y > an incompatible Gentoo fork of zlib? It seemed to me like this was a silly problem from the outset. vapier did arguably the right thing, and if that means exposing some broken software, fine. We handle plenty of breakage worse than this, but I understand that it can be inconvenient. However, you completely lost any support when you said > Yes, bad idea. But it's in my liberty to write code however I see fit. That just makes me want to slap you. I'll echo what vapier said in response: it's absolutely your prerogative to do whatever you want, but it's not our responsibility to make sure that it works in Gentoo. > It's a bad call. You've made plenty of those lately. This is just another= one. > IMO, you don't have the skills and insight to mess with this stuff. So wh= en you > try, breakage happens. I hope you retire soon. Are you kidding me? Grow up.