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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: devqawarn()?
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:45:30
Message-Id: 4E5F621F.5090805@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: devqawarn()? by "Michał Górny"
1 On 1.9.2011 12.03, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > A quick idea. Right now eclasses sometimes do API changes and start
5 > yelling at users merging ebuilds using outdates APIs. This often means
6 > users start filling bugs about outdated ebuilds requiring maintainers
7 > either to ignore that or start updating old ebuilds retroactively.
8 >
9 > Maybe we should add some kind of devqawarn() function to eutils.eclass,
10 > which would trigger special QA warnings only when ebuild is merged by
11 > a developer? This could be triggered e.g. by some kind of voluntary
12 > make.conf setting.
13 >
14
15 What's wrong with eqawarn that's already provided by eutils?
16
17 Regards,
18 Petteri

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: devqawarn()? "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>