[arch-general] arch health

[Ivy Foster]

Francisco Barbee via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 20 April 2017 at 10:32:32,  Jelle van der Waa wrote:
> > PIE is blocked by upstream because of this bug iirc. [1]
> > [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21090

> Plus nobody ever explained why minor bug in testsuite should be
> a blocker here.

Because binutils is a vital system component that it is very, very
important to have working. It's one of those programs whose tests you
absolutely do not want failing, since you're subsequently using it to
link, well, *everything*.

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