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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Common sense in [gentoo-dev] (was Council May Summary: Changes to ChangeLog handling)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:06:14
Message-Id: 201105310005.09218.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Council May Summary: Changes to ChangeLog handling by Brian Harring
1 Am Montag 30 Mai 2011, 23:55:52 schrieb Brian Harring:
2 > If someone has a definition that is commonsense, then propose it- the
3 > current "you must log everything" is very, very heavy handed and
4 > basically was a forced situation since QA cannot make folks behave
5 > when the rules are reliant on common sense.
6
7 Well how about "any change that can influence the behaviour of (portage|your
8 favourite package manager) in any way or present the user with different
9 output"?
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11 Clearly rules out whitespace changes.
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13 Small typos in text messages might be seen as a (harmless) borderline case.
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15 Removal of an ebuild definitely can influence portage behaviour, as can f.ex.
16 an EAPI bump.
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18 Thoughts?
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20 --
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22 Andreas K. Huettel
23 Gentoo Linux developer
24 dilfridge@g.o
25 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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