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From: Alastair Tse <liquidx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 12:23:24
Message-Id: 1053692602.1228.10.camel@huggins.eng.cam.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes by Dhruba Bandopadhyay
1 On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 13:01, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
2 > Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > - Please please, do not submit ebuilds for version bumps unless necessary and
4 > > if necessary tell us what changed.
5 >
6 > Version bump only when necessary? What does this mean? Isn't keeping
7 > up to date a basic requirement to maintain a modern tree?
8
9 I think what Paul means is:
10
11 If you submit a bug about a package needing a version bump, only
12 _attach_ the ebuild if something needs to be changed in the _ebuild_ to
13 support the new version.
14
15 Cheers,
16 --
17 Alastair 'liquidx' Tse
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