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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:45:41 +0000 Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> |
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| On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:19 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > Two ways this one can occur. |
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| [snip] |
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| Third way ... upstream is a provider of commercial software, and |
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| releases different editions of the same software with identical |
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| filenames. |
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Then you must talk to upstream and get them to change their ways. |
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| I have the QA team on bug #123926 asserting that they have the right |
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| to tell me to remove packages from the tree, because of basename |
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| $SRC_URI filename collisions. |
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We don't *want* to remove the package from the tree. We want to get |
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the breakage fixed. |
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| To the best of my knowledge, there's no policy document in existence |
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| empowering the QA team to order package maintainers to remove packages |
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| from Portage. I've asked the team to provide a copy if one exists, |
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| but I haven't seen one yet. The team have (twice now) instead stated |
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| that the email at the top of this thread is their authority. |
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There's no policy document in existence that explicitly says that you |
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(by name) can add stuff to the tree either. Most of our policy is |
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undocumented, because it's impossible to cover every situation. The |
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number one rule, however, is to be sensible and not commit things that |
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cause breakages. |
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Again, we don't *want* to remove it. On the other hand, if you refuse |
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to work with us to get the problem fixed, we're going to have to do |
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something about it ourselves. |
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| Also, I cannot find this SRC_URI rule (as being applied by the QA |
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| team) in any official Gentoo policy document. |
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As I recall, pretty much nothing about digests at all is in any |
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official policy document. Nor is nearly anything else on any |
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development topic. However, that it is not explicitly forbidden does |
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not mean that it should be done. |
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Where in policy does it say that you shouldn't commit pictures of |
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teletubbies in SVG format in the tree? |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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