Essentially, distro developers are firefighters, putting out fires made by careless upstreams.

What I've wasted time on, today:

- making the non-standalone test suite of #Hatchling (sigh) work without #UV again, so that a critical build dependency of a growing number of #Python packages could be tested everywhere

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cc6e54e1df5e0802198c793f39107a9028b8698f
https://bugs.gentoo.org/930662

- fixing effectively dead (but with a promise of revival) #PassLib not to break random stuff via printing warnings when using newer #BCrypt versions

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c1e015b65b74283a51893672739c5e4784b95273
https://bugs.gentoo.org/925289

- hacking the test suite of #ImageIO work using an offline copy of test data, rather than cloning its git repository at the beginning of tests

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=77ff4bc09d68067f2c635d43d446f308990e0873

I really wish people would consider donating to distro developers more often, rather than to projects that create this thankless work for us.

#Gentoo

#Gentoo Infra: unable to get even the most trivial hosting for developer-made distfiles, first requested in 2007.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/176186

Also Gentoo Infra: putting a lot of effort to find, archive and mirror historical upstream distfiles.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/834712

I mean, Gentoo developers are using hacky solutions right now, and are irrevocably discarding old, custom-made distfiles, because of limited space on the disk used to host them. Wouldn't it make more sense to stop this from happening first?