Packages with optflags and/or debuginfo issues

[Till Maas]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:49, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "TM" == Till Maas <opensource at till.name> writes:
>
> TM> I filed a bug[1], what is the next step?
>
> Well, it's kind of obvious that the package maintainer should then
> deal with the bug.

Ok, but what to do when the package maintainer states that he would not change 
it?

> Is there some question that you're trying to ask without actually
> asking it?  Or are you trying to bring up some issue without actually
> stating what that issue is?

I do not completly understand where there is a problem. Initially I asked the 
following, maybe it helps to read it again to understand my other questions:

| > (although they can obviously be introduced after reviews too).
| 
| What to do then? I once filled a bug about this for qemu and it was closed 
| with WONTFIX:
|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208026

So there is the question how to proceed when one discovers a violation of the 
packaging guidelines and the maintainer does not want to change it. And there 
is also a specific issue: qemu which does not honor $RPM_OPT_FLAGS, it 
(maybe) destroys debuginfo with "-fomit-frame-pointer" and it does not 
provide the upstream license (which I only mentioned in the bug report).

Regards,
Till