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I think it's a good thing that there's enough information to easily correlate things like crash reports from the latest bleeding-edge packages with uploads of d
by JoshTriplett 5y ago
I think it's a good thing that there's enough information to easily correlate things like crash reports from the latest bleeding-edge packages with uploads of dependency packages:
> the libfontconfig1 package was updated on Debian on the 21st of April and the first crash we have on record was sent on the 22nd. Here's the changelog:
I think that's a good argument for this kind of crash-telemetry, working in conjunction with Linux distributions. And it helped, in this case, that the dependencies could be updated independently from Firefox.
On the other hand, the libdrm hurd patch breaking things on Linux seems like an excellent example of how portability to obscure platforms has a non-zero cost, and it isn't as simple as "just accept portability patches".