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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:56:57
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=WsXkH74+MHNi7X+1gLA09yPG8tTmqvaOCWYF5+RNwbQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] CVS headers in ebuilds by William Hubbs
1 On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:57 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 09:03:59AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
3 >> On 4 April 2016 at 08:57, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
4 >> > Does anyone still use the CVS $Id$ keywords that are in all ebuilds'
5 >> > headers, or are they being expanded anywhere? Or is there any other
6 >> > reason why they should be kept?
7 >>
8 >>
9 >> Last time this came up, a sole example case was mentioned, but it
10 >> might have been buried.
11 >>
12 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557386
13 >
14 > Tracking this type of value to "track upstream" doesn't seem to make
15 > much sense, and I think if infra was going to be able to fix it, it
16 > would have happened by now.
17 >
18 > My vote is to nuke it and be done with it.
19 >
20
21 ++ - though as was pointed out this is a vote I've already cast before.
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24 Rich