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On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:59:20 +0300 |
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Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> Please respond to this email with agenda items. Please do not hesitate |
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> to repeat your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously |
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> suggested one (since the last meeting). |
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I would like to request the Council to vote on the topic of changing |
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the ${D} and ${ROOT} variables not to be terminated with a trailing |
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slash. To decrease confusion and improve forward compatibility, this |
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would benefit from retroactively removing the 'must end with a trailing |
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slash' guarantees from PMS, changing it to undefined and working on |
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fixing the ebuilds which relied on those. |
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Then, in a future EAPI a common guarantee will be added that all path |
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variables do not end with a trailing slash. |
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The topic has been brought on the ml [1] and there was some discussion |
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in the relevant bug [2] as well. I've written a simple plan on how to |
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handle it effectively [3], attached a PMS patch and two dedicated QA |
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checks for repoman. |
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The idea has met mostly positive feedback. Ciaran is opposed to it. |
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The number of ebuilds needing changing for the 'no trailing slash' |
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standard is estimated to be at least 30 times smaller than those which |
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incorrectly assume no trailing slash in ${D} -- which proves that |
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the current rule is unknown to most of the developers. |
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[1]:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/84989 |
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[2]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465772 |
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[3]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465772#c20 |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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