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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 21:58:08
Message-Id: 20160403215754.GA13415@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds by Kent Fredric
1 On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:03:59AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On 4 April 2016 at 08:57, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Does anyone still use the CVS $Id$ keywords that are in all ebuilds'
4 > > headers, or are they being expanded anywhere? Or is there any other
5 > > reason why they should be kept?
6 >
7 >
8 > Last time this came up, a sole example case was mentioned, but it
9 > might have been buried.
10 >
11 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557386
12
13 Tracking this type of value to "track upstream" doesn't seem to make
14 much sense, and I think if infra was going to be able to fix it, it
15 would have happened by now.
16
17 My vote is to nuke it and be done with it.
18
19 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>