Re: [gentoo-dev] Permission to add a dummy package in tree

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:07:09 +0100
Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o> wrote:

> these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I
> have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package
> installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and
> hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between
> versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider
> does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit
> tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the
> testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though.
> Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate
> policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any
> objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one
> month
>
> [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy

To be honest, I don't mind having dummy packages in the tree. I would
be happy to convert gentoopm sometime to use them instead of relying on
random packages to match its criteria.

However, I'd rather see them in a special category, and preferably
prefixed with 'gentoo-' to make it least possible for any kind of name
collisions.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny