On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 14:03:07 +0200 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > global epatch_user has a downside which I think was not even really > discussed here unless I missed something. It could introduce many > bogus bug reports which are caused by user-applied patches, cause > it's easier now and you don't need to do it in an overlay. > The maintainer will need to catch this and asking which repo the > bugreporter did use is not sufficient. He will need the build log and > check if user patches got applied there.
No, it's not a downside. It's an advantage: user patches will get applied correctly now, and in a way visible to the package mangler, and thus can be shown consistently in bug reports. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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