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| From: | Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-maintenance/removal: Process for virtual removal | ||
| Date: | Mon, 07 Sep 2020 13:21:33 | ||
| Message-Id: | b572f4e4-b5e8-0aa0-41b6-605a1058e67c@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-maintenance/removal: Process for virtual removal by Alessandro Barbieri |
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| 1 | On 2020-09-07 08:47, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: |
| 2 | > Being consistent in decision is hard I see. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | You're missing some context. In October of last year, a QA team member |
| 5 | broke dependency resolution on a lot of systems by making the same sort |
| 6 | of change that this patch proposes: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/64c42804eb4cf4bc7d1161a2e9222c6a |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Last month, someone brought up that example and named the QA team as |
| 11 | partly responsible for the --changed-deps requirement, which goes |
| 12 | against the PMS and a council decision: |
| 13 | |
| 14 | https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/dcebabbd6f13aed6622424d439f7becc |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Shortly thereafter, another QA member opened a pull request that would |
| 17 | retroactively make what the first QA member did OK: |
| 18 | |
| 19 | https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual/pull/177 |
| 20 | |
| 21 | And now, we are having a third QA team member in charge of approving |
| 22 | that change to the devmanual, which will later be cited as "policy." |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Your problem is that you're not a member of the right gang. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-maintenance/removal: Process for virtual removal | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |