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Michał Górny posted on Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:24:02 +0100 as excerpted: |
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> Hello, |
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> Right now an attempt to commit an ebuild with no HOMEPAGE results in: |
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> HOMEPAGE.missing 1 |
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> app-admin/eselect-sh/eselect-sh-0.4.ebuild |
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> Note: use --include-dev (-d) to check dependencies for 'dev' profiles |
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> Please fix these important QA issues first. |
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> Why is this considered an 'important QA issue'? Does the policy really |
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> say that if something doesn't have a homepage, we're supposed to put |
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> garbage in there? |
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How does something not have a homepage? If upstream is gone, then by |
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definition, gentoo's the "upstream" as we're distributing it, so |
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gentoo.org becomes the homepage. |
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(I've always thought there should be a special page for this purpose on |
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the gentoo site, more or less like the package version of a 404 error, |
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explaining that for this package upstream is dead, so as the distributor, |
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we're now the homepage, that would distinguish this case from proper |
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gentoo projects and avoid this question coming up occasionally as it |
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seems to, but...) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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