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

2008-11-19 Thread Alec Warner
On 11/17/08, Peter Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: В Вск, 16/11/2008 в 15:33 -0600, Ryan Hill пишет: - FEATURES=test failures; And what we are supposed to do if upstream states that tests are not supposed to be ran

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

2008-11-19 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:52:25 +0300 Peter Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: В Вск, 16/11/2008 в 15:33 -0600, Ryan Hill пишет: - FEATURES=test failures; And what we are supposed to do if upstream states that tests are not

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

2008-11-19 Thread Diego E. 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Ryan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also relevant question: some tests require root privileges. What we should do in such case? When I asked this previously I was told to check the current user's permissions before running them. I haven't had a case where I've had to though. On libarchive

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

2008-11-17 Thread Peter Volkov
В Вск, 16/11/2008 в 15:33 -0600, Ryan Hill пишет: - FEATURES=test failures; And what we are supposed to do if upstream states that tests are not supposed to be ran on users systems and exists for package development only? For

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

2008-11-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Serkan Kaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think, resolving as UPSTREAM might be more logical as we can't force every upstream to fix their *borked* build system and the bug will be left open forever. If upstream refuses to fix an issue that _is an issue_ we have to fix it, not work it around

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

2008-11-16 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:24:34 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) wrote: 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