[Dev-luatex] QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 31 December 2010 Taco Hoekwater wrote:

 > 
 > Hi Toralf,
 > 
 > On 12/30/2010 03:54 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:
 > > Hello,
 > >
 > > under a stable Gentoo I got for dev-tex/luatex-0.63.0 :
 > >
 > > ...
 > >   * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile
 > >   *            fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
 > >   * luatexdir/luafontloader/fontforge/fontforge/nouiutil.c:49: warning: attempt
 > > to free a non-heap object 'buffer'
 > 
 > That function is never actually called, but thanks for the report
 > anyway. I'll add a small patch to get rid of the notice (pending
 > ultimate removal of the entire NOUI code).
 > 
 > Please tell me, what is the tool that generates this QA Notice?

Hi Taco,
these messages come from portage, Gentoo's package tool.  I've put the
latest release on my server:

  http://ms25.ath.cx/portage-2.1.9.25.tar.bz2

The message above is defined in bin/misc-functions.sh

Regards,
  Reinhard

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