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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@...>
Subject: Re: rewritten epatch
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:56:55 -0800
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 01:06:22PM +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
> > for various reasons/limitations/bugs/whatever, i rewrote epatch.  seems to
> > work for me, but in case someone wants to check before i release:
> 
> Wouldn't it be safer to let this run on, say, Patrick's or Deigo's
> tinderboxes for a day or so before pushing this to eutils?
> 
> Murphy's law becomes more applicable as the affected domain of a
> change increases :)

Err... that's a damn fine idea actually, although it requires getting 
them to agree to it.

For changes of this sort, abusing the tinderboxes to get a real world 
test run makes a lot of sense.

Diego/Patrick- thoughts?

~harring
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