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   mattst88 :gentoo: (mattst88@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 12:53:07 JST mattst88 :gentoo:

   • keithp

   @keithp has a saying:

   > There are two types of code: tested code and broken code

   Early in my career I thought "nah, there's some code that just works and doesn't need maintenance".

   But once again his adage proves true.

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     mattst88 :gentoo: (mattst88@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Dec-2024 17:24:32 JST mattst88 :gentoo:

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     Today's example:

     A few years ago the Xserver failed to build on SPARC. @thesamesam fixed it in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/813. The fix added a necessary bit of code to the build that had been missed in the autotools → meson transition.

     Recently we discovered it had stopped compiling at some point when GCC became more strict! (Fix: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1751)

     #sparc #xorg #xserver #gcc

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