[gentoo-dev] Remember: workarounds don't warrant RESO FIXED!

[flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò)]

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Guys, please remember that if you work something around, you should
_not_ close the bug as RESO FIXED but keep the bug open so that the
issue can be addressed and fixed _properly_. Otherwise we'll end up with
ebuilds full of workarounds without even documentation on why the
workaround is applied!

With workarounds I mean, as examples:

- FEATURES=test failures;
- broken parallel make that requires -j1;
- flags filtering, included -Wl,--no-as-needed appending

This is important because:

a) we want test to work or get fixed upstream;
b) we want users to get parallel build if they request parallel build;
c) we want --as-needed to be used, not ignored.

If the bug is open and comes out on searches and all the rest, then we
have higher chances that someone might _fix_ it, without having to look
to see if there actually is one...

Thanks!

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/


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