On 03/03/2010 02:58 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: >> Dne 3.3.2010 12:32, Joshua Saddler napsal(a): >>> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:35:10 +0200 >>> Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>>> # Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> (03 Mar 2010) >>>> # Masked for QA, security >>>> # >>>> # Internal copies of vuln. zlib, jpeg, speex and likely >>>> # others >>>> # >>>> # http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255453 >>>> # >>>> # Masked for removal in 60 days. >>>> games-fps/openarena >>>> >>> >>> Why? Why did you ignore the patches posted to the bug? Even Diego, the >>> original reporter, commented that the patches fix the problems.[1] >>> >>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255453#c4 >> > > One of the reasons I left the treecleaner project was that it became apparent > that people were more interested in dumping packages with simple problems > than fixing them (which believe it or not, was what treecleaner was formed to > do). Now they call it QA. :) > > I'm all for dropping broken crap, but things people use with working patches > attached? QA is also about getting that stuff applied.
And now you have good 60 days to apply and test the package, and co-ordinate it with upstream. Don't forget to add yourself to metadata.xml, as it's a non-trivial task. ;-)
