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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:14:41
Message-Id: 47DCC8A3.9000709@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help offered - Portage tree by Natanael Copa
1 Natanael Copa wrote:
2 > IIRC thread starter complained about too many wrong RDEPEND.
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4 No, the thread started with an attitude problem, still unsolved btw.
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6 > Problem is not that devs are not willing to fix. Problem is that its to
7 > easy to inject wrong RDEPEND in the tree in the first place and only way
8 > to get it out from there is to wait for someone to report it. Since
9 > many/most devs dont use binpkgs its expected that errors in RDEPEND are
10 > there.
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12 That could/will be solved with tinderbox checking or other means of
13 automated checks. We need your help since we don't have enough resources
14 to do that by ourselves.
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16 > Might be i have ideas how to fix but I need to gain some experience with
17 > repoman before I present those.
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19 Thank you for your offer, I'm looking forward to heard back from you =)
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21 lu
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25 Luca Barbato
26 Gentoo Council Member
27 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
28 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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