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Bug 737932 - Add a qa-upstream category to skip QA warning unfixable by us
Summary: Add a qa-upstream category to skip QA warning unfixable by us
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2020-08-18 17:05 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified: 2023-03-14 02:30 UTC (History)
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2020-08-18 17:05:37 UTC
This is a problem I see for years. I always record QA warning via
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log qa"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary"

That way I ensure to review QA warnings to try to fix them. The problem is that it also includes warnings like those:
QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
           may exhibit random runtime failures.
file-utils.c:694:9: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strcasecmp' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA
issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.

Long time ago I was reporting them to relevant upstreams... at some point I was bored of reporting them and seeing how they were ignoring them most of the times.

One problem that warnings have is that they can be long. I think it would be interesting to allow to skip that "qa-upstream" checks if possible

Thanks a lot