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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:27:16PM +0100, Spider wrote: |
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> Now here is an issue and a pet peeve I have with ebuild submitters, |
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> especially in the desktop set of applications. They re-submit an ebuild |
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> that is created by doing cp oldbuild->newbuild. Why? |
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> Doing that has made a lot of us cautious since the usersubmitted builds |
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> are generally an annoyance in such cases, fex. When somone doesn't state |
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> teh changes in the ebuild between the old and the new, I'm forced to |
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> proofread the new builds completely as to avoid getting messed over. |
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> So, did you actually state what differed your build from the last? |
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> builds without a Changes entry will get a far rougher treatment than |
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> others. |
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> (Why do users insist on not submiting the ChangeLog entry?) |
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Maybe because they trust that all our developers know how to diff a submitted |
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ebuild against the last approved one? |
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Even with a changelog entry, I would never add a user-submitted ebuild without |
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diffing it and making sure I know what changed and why. |
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Alain |
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