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"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> said: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in our |
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> main CVS repo. |
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> The primary use-case that has been publicly stated before was for users |
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> to be able to identify to developers what version of a given ebuild |
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> they were using. |
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> Q: How much have you utilized the primary use case? |
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> Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively use? |
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> For evaluating existing uses of the primary case, I took a glance at |
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> Bugzilla. There are 624 bugs total that contain a $Header$ with an |
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> existing Gentoo path. At least 143 of those are for new packages or |
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> version bumps (they copied existing ebuilds). |
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it appears we have decided to keep the $Header$ keyword in ebuilds for |
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now. however, what about removing it from the ChangeLog? |
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kind regards |
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Thilo |
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