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From: "Manuel RĂ¼ger" <mrueg@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:59:43
Message-Id: 53E97502.40604@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings by William Hubbs
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4 On 08/12/2014 03:48 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
5 > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 03:22:11PM +0300, Sergei Trofimovich
6 > wrote:
7 >> Hello World!
8 >>
9 >> TL;DR: This evening I plan to mangle ~3000 ebuilds in the main
10 >> tree by dropping trailing '.' in all 'DESCRIPTION=' fields
11 >> (except "etc." case)
12 >>
13 >> Long story:
14 >>
15 >> As you may know newest portage release 2.2.11 got a minor (but
16 >> chatty) QA warning: DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character
17 >
18 > Why is this a QA warning in the first place?
19 >
20 > I don't recall a policy mandating that descriptions can't end with
21 > '.'. I asked our QA lead about it and was told that he didn't
22 > recall that we have an official policy about it either. Also, the
23 > devmanual never mentions any such requirement.
24 >
25 > If someone can point me to something I'm missing, let me know.
26 > Otherwise, I think the warning should be removed.
27 >
28 > William
29 >
30
31 These links might be helpful:
32
33 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=06637c4215d55c57517739214c6e0fd6f8f53914
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35 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438976
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37 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/80786
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40 What's still missing is a patch for devmanual (if we still really want
41 to enforce this).
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44 Manuel
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