Duncan wrote: > If the user sees it, it means the maintainer failed to do his job. The > tarball couldn't have even been changed upstream without notice, since > it'd then fail the sanity/security/signing checks. I think that's the > suggestion, that it be mandatory for maintainers to deal with, and the > user shouldn't ever see it. >
You seems to forget the fact that Gentoo is a source distro and as such, emerge foo can fail on users boxes while on maintainer's box works like a charm. As a maintainer, you cannot possibly test all the USE/installed libs/CFLAGS combinations. I don't say maintainer shouldn't fix whatever problems has his package, but don't be in such a hurry to blame someone when you happen to find a bug.
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