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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-arch/bzip2: bzip2-1.0.5-r1.ebuild
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:29:45
Message-Id: BANLkTimmzwMMJgh1gv4LKLLbfm=nNOi+cg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-arch/bzip2: bzip2-1.0.5-r1.ebuild by Samuli Suominen
1 On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 06/07/2011 10:53 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> On Monday, May 16, 2011 09:41:08 Mark Loeser wrote:
4 >>> "Mike Frysinger (vapier)" <vapier@g.o> said:
5 >>>> vapier      11/05/16 03:30:02
6 >>>>
7 >>>>   Removed:              bzip2-1.0.5-r1.ebuild
8 >>>>   Log:
9 >>>>   old
10 >>>
11 >>> Please document removal of ebuilds in ChangeLogs.
12 >>
13 >> waste of time.  i simply wont bother removing old versions until changelogs
14 >> start being autogenerated or the policy is sane again.
15 >
16 > +1, see: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368097#c75
17 >
18 > and I have to say it's all on councils shoulders how bad of an impact
19 > this will have on the tree with several devs leaving old files around or
20 > leaving trivial fixes uncommitted to workaround bad policy.
21
22 To avoid cluttering that bug report more, I'll respond here.
23
24 It seems like the obvious answer is yes. The devrel resolution simply
25 says that you can have commit access back after promising to follow
26 the policy, and I can't see any way you wouldn't be following the
27 policy by not making commits where you'd have otherwise left the
28 changelog untouched.
29
30 Matt