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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: OpenAFS no longer needs kernel option DEBUG_RODATA
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:50:21
Message-Id: 20160722154955.69fe4ce8.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] News Item: OpenAFS no longer needs kernel option DEBUG_RODATA by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:41:56 +0300
2 Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:14:23 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > Dnia 22 lipca 2016 13:00:42 CEST, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> napisał(a):
6 > > >On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:12:12 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
7 > [...]
8 > > >> Few important QA notes:
9 > > >>
10 > > >> 1. < is lexicographical comparison, so e.g. 1.6.2.2 < 1.6.18.2 gives
11 > > >> false,
12 > > >
13 > > >Thanks, fixed.
14 > > >
15 > > >> 2. REPLACING_VERSIONS can have more than one value,
16 > > >
17 > > >While it can indeed, I see no way for this to happen if package
18 > > >hasn't and never had multiple slots.
19 > >
20 > > Wrong. PMS specifically requests you to account for such a possibility.
21 >
22 > Common sence must prevail over formal approaches. While PMS is
23 > great, it is not perfect in all possible aspects, and this one is
24 > one of them.
25 >
26 > I see no point in trashing ebuilds with dead code that will never
27 > be used. Though if there will be a PMS or eclass function with
28 > "proper" implementation, I don't mind, since extra code will be
29 > moved from ebuild elsewhere.
30
31 So are you officially refusing to follow the PMS based on your idea of
32 'common sense' and ignoring the specific reasons it was written like
33 that? I should put my QA hat on, and request official action upon your
34 refusal.
35
36 --
37 Best regards,
38 Michał Górny
39 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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