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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] versionator.eclass: Add tests for parameter counts
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 08:28:38
Message-Id: 57947C28.1040405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] versionator.eclass: Add tests for parameter counts by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh schrieb:
2 > On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:17:24 +0200
3 > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> Then ebuilds will fail just the same
5 >>
6 >> No. Before, ebuilds would maybe display an upgrading message when
7 >> they shouldn't, or vice versa. Now the eclass dies on them.
8 >
9 > This attitude that invisible failures (which don't get fixed, and which
10 > lead to occasional weirdness) are better than visible failures (which
11 > must be fixed) is an odd one... Postel has a lot to answer for.
12
13 I would agree with you when it comes to upstreams' -Werror but I do realize
14 that I am in the minority there.
15
16 My point here is that this change will affect the behaviour of ebuilds using
17 this eclass.
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20 Best regards,
21 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn