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Anthony G. Basile: |
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> On 03/29/2014 09:26 AM, hasufell wrote: |
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>> Anthony G. Basile: |
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>>> On 03/27/2014 09:40 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: |
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>>>> Hi everyone, |
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>>>> |
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>>>> The council will be meeing on April 8, 2014 at 1900 UTC. |
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>>>> Please bring forward any agenda items you would like |
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>>>> discussed. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> --Tony |
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>>>> |
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>>> Okay I'd like to add an agenda item. A policy inspired by bug |
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>>> #506034. |
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>>> |
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>>> Motion: "Significant changes to virtuals are to be discussed |
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>>> (via mailing list or bugzilla) with all the maintainers and/or |
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>>> herds which maintain packages those virtuals depend on." |
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>>> |
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>>> Discussion: "Like eclasses, changes to virtuals can affect all |
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>>> the packages which depend on them. Changing existing |
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>>> virtuals, removing virtuals or adding new ones affect the |
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>>> packages they depend on. When such a change is proposed, all |
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>>> maintainers affected need to be included in the discussion." |
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>>> |
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>> Sounds like any other reverse-dep. If people don't discuss |
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>> non-trivial changes (to whatever part of gentoo), then that needs |
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>> to be fixed, not policies introduced for every single situation |
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>> that arises. |
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> |
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> True, I did think of that, but we do have a policy for eclasses. |
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> With deeper uses of virtuals, it does not hurt to make the |
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> reverse-dep issue explicit. |
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> |
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IMO, eclasses are special since they are not really versioned. |
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Virtuals are regular packages, versioned and with stable and unstable |
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keywords. |
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Unless you really want to apply this policy on _all_ reverse deps. |
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And if people don't follow it, then what? There have been a hundred |
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situations (including eclasses) that were sufficient to say "stop" to |
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some people who regularly do undiscussed, non-trivial changes. Until |
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now, not much has happened about it. I doubt that this policy will |
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change any of that. |
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[sarcasm] |
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But it gives us an impression of progress, at least... and policies |
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seem to be a trend lately. |
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[/sarcasm] |
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