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From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-qa@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] QA confusion: Upstream qa issues -> failing to install
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:27:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100825182755.GA6815@halcy0n.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008251342.14948.bangert@gentoo.org>

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Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org> said:
> trying to install openssh on the dev profile one is greated with this 
> bugger:
> 
>  * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
>  *            fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
>  * closefromtest.c:46: warning: implicit declaration of function 
> ‘closefrom’
> 
>  * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA
>  * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.


> This looks really really weird. On the one hand we are saying: "Its a QA 
> issue but upstream should fix it." followed by "It so broke, we wont let 
> you install it."


Personally I think we should be directing our users to our Bugzilla
always.  We really don't want to be pissing off upstreams if we put in a
patch that triggers one of these QA warnings and it ends up being our
problem and not theirs.

-- 
Mark Loeser
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email         -   mark AT halcy0n DOT com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-25 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-25 11:42 [gentoo-qa] QA confusion: Upstream qa issues -> failing to install Thilo Bangert
2010-08-25 14:20 ` Markos Chandras
2010-08-25 15:55   ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2010-08-25 18:59     ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-25 21:57       ` Thilo Bangert
2010-08-25 19:20     ` Markos Chandras
2010-08-25 21:51       ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2010-08-25 22:33         ` Markos Chandras
2010-08-25 18:27 ` Mark Loeser [this message]
2010-08-25 22:02   ` Thilo Bangert
2010-09-03 15:17     ` Mark Loeser

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