Bug#319162: NMU patch

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 03 septembre 2005 à 00:31 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> Yeah, right.  binutils is unmaintained; the issue couldn't possibly be
> that you've made poor design decisions in your packages by making them
> dependent on kludgy, non-default toolchain options that policy doesn't
> require the toolchain to support at all...

Policy? What does binutils working properly have to do with policy?
Policy documents existing practice, and existing practice is to use this
option. This is a regression in the toolchain for some architectures. No
more, no less. If there aren't enough skilled people to fix the
toolchain for some architectures, this isn't a good sign for the health
of that port. Today, --as-needed can't be fixed, obviously because
nobody skilled enough is willing to work on it. What are you going to do
if "default" linker options are broken tomorrow?

And after all, you're the release manager, so you'll be the one to deal
with the horrible mess of gnome-games dependencies when all indirect
dependencies are explicit. Great to see how you welcome design decisions
taken to ease your work.
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