Am 26.06.2013 15:02, schrieb Allan McRae: > On 26/06/13 22:47, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Am 26.06.2013 07:01, schrieb Allan McRae: >>> One reason for this is that >>> we needed to patch ltmain.sh to properly handle -Wl,-as-needed, because >>> the Arch package maintainer refused to do so unless upstream accepts! >> >> So, you are patching ltmain.sh in pacman, because you refused to patch >> libtool in Arch to work properly with Arch? >> >> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libtool/ -> Maintainer >> > > Yes - one project I am upstream in, the other I am not.
You complained above that the Arch Linux package maintainer for libtool refused to fix it in Arch. Since you are the package maintainer, and this is a global problem for Arch, why don't you fix it there? Is it really a better choice to fix every package instead of just patching libtool?
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