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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:54:01
Message-Id: 44B56DB8.8060105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default by Henrik Brix Andersen
1 Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:11:01PM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote:
3 >> Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying than
4 >> an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because
5 >> upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt and noone
6 >> noticed during version bump, or because someone made a typo there. Fail
7 >> to see any benefit from this... :S Ditto for manpages.
8 >
9 > How could that slip through the initial testing of the ebuild
10 > performed by the developer doing the version bump?
11
12 It couldn't, but this change isn't being made with a bump. We haven't
13 been assured those doing the change right now are going to test every
14 package using doman, dodoc, etc.. Packages will probably start failing
15 left and right.
16
17 Thanks,
18 Donnie

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>