Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in media-libs/mlt: ChangeLog mlt-0.5.4-r1.ebuild

[Markos Chandras]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:10:13PM +0300, Alex Alexander wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 03:50:53PM +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > > - If you are not in cc of the gentoo bug nor in the herd alias, please cc
> > > yourself on the bug.
> > > - Please close the bugs, even the dupes (and apply previous point to the dupes
> > > too).
> > > - That way you'll be able to quickly fix (apparently, I didn't check) obvious
> > > mistakes [1].
> > > - You'll have to do a rev. bump for *FLAGS respect, please also check if you
> > > can avoid it by doing a version bump instead.
> > Well not always. If something is on ~testing then I don't think I should
> > "spam" the tree with revbumps. Stable users are my first priority so
>
> Stable may be more critical, but we support ~testing as well. How do you
> expect your changes to be tested before landing on stable if you don't
> revbump the packages, allowing them to reach our users?
I expect arch testers to do a pretty good testing before they mark them
stable. Seems like I am the only one who fixes such issues without revbump.
Strange, cvs log must be lying...

Now lets see

http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/index.html

"Ebuilds should have their -rX incremented whenever a change is made which will
make a **substantial** difference to what gets installed by the package — by
substantial, we generally mean "something for which many users would want to
upgrade". This is usually for bugfixes."

Seems like it is up to maintainer's discretion to decide what it is
substantial change and what it is not. Many users wont be directly affected from my changes. It is not like not
respect CXX, CXXFLAGS after all.

"Simple compile fixes do not warrant a revision bump; this is because they do
not affect the installed package for users who already managed to compile it.
Small documentation fixes are also usually not grounds for a new revision."

So you want me to force everyone to update the package just to respect the
LDFLAGS. Why, since until recently, nobody gave a crap about this kind of QA
issues?


Please provide a patch for devmanual to make it more clear. If it is
already clear maybe I am that stupid after all. 

In any case, I will keep doing what I do because you didn't convince me so far
that my changes need a revbump. If arch testers fail to do proper testing
thats really *REALLY* not my fault. Testing is testing and I can't do a
revbump for every little piece of shit I fix everytime. 

>
> Please, don't skip revbumps to avoid "tree spamming", thats why we have
> revbumps in the first place ;)
>
> > unless something is on stable branch, I fix it as it is. I don't want to
> > version bump anything because I don't want to mess with anyones
> > packages. I only do QA fixing. If you have problem touching your
> > packages just say it
> > >
> > > A.
> > >
> > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332523
> >
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> > Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
> > Gentoo Linux Developer
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>
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