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From: Jurek Bartuszek <jurek@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:59:59
Message-Id: 46B5123F.2020601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > Steev Klimaszewski kirjoitti:
3 >> Vlastimil Babka wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> dodoc calls should have || die and USE=doc should be tested before
6 >>> commiting a bump, IMHO
7 >>>
8 >> Sorry, I didn't realize my 3 hour compile of $APPLICATION should die
9 >> because TODO wasn't around. Vote against || die - it doesn't affect
10 >> anything aside from misc docs not being installed, if its really that
11 >> important, most people hit the website anyway. (But yes, they should be
12 >> corrected and tested before committing)
13 >>
14 >
15 > And is the average ebuild 3 hours and haven't you heard about FEATURES
16 > noauto? The || die is there for maintainers to spot when version
17 > bumping. If you commit a version that's broken with missing TODO and ||
18 > die you should think about if you are doing everything right...
19 >
20
21 Just thinking aloud - why not add some (QA?) notice in the summary when
22 dodoc (and possibly other do*'s) fails? One would be instructed to file
23 a new bug when he sees it *and*, after all, the package will have still
24 been merged successfuly.
25
26 Best regards,
27 Jurek Bartuszek
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>