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Today's example:

A few years ago the Xserver failed to build on SPARC. @thesamesam fixed it in gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xs. 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: gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xs)

GitLabhw/xfree86: fix sbus build for SPARC (!813) · Merge requests · xorg / xserver · GitLabInitially reported downstream in Gentoo. Manifests with errors like: gnu/bin/ld: hw/xfree86/common/libxorg_common.a(xf86fbBus.c.o): in function `xf86ClaimFbSlot':...
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