On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > On 15/02/2013 01:15, Rich Freeman wrote: >> How? We don't support overlays in the main tree. I could see a >> package maintainer being nice if pinged by an overlay maintainer and >> delaying some change for a short time to let an overlay be updated, >> but issues that impact overlays should not be considered blockers on >> closing bugs on the main tree. > > The problem is when you have to triple-check that the user hasn't > enabled some random fucked up overlay and you have to guess whether that > might be the cause of the problem. Yes it happens, not so rarely.
I empathize, but I'm not really sure it is a blocker for this effort. Developers already have to evaluate whether the bug the user filed is legitimate; I don't think this makes that significantly more difficult. As stated. spotting overlay usage is pretty simple as-is. > >> If there is something wrong with the proaudio overlay just don't use >> it. The same would apply to sunset. > > I don't use it; people still report bugs with it. > > -- > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes > flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ >
