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On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:40:40PM +0100, Michael Kunze wrote: |
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> Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > I don't really see the value in crippling the tree because some SRC_URIs |
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> > are bad. What we should be doing is finding the new SRC_URI - a lot of |
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> > those files have just moved to new locations. |
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> Isn't that the job of the maintainer? |
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Indeed, but maintainers are often not aware. A reliable list of broken |
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SRC_URIs would be useful. |
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Additionally, most SRC_URIs are updated when updating the ebuild; it'd |
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be beneficial to also make sure the SRC_URI for old ebuilds is valid if |
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the file still exists upstream. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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