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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 07:55:43
Message-Id: f4bb0e44-1e69-5712-c3e1-21d4362cd91d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] questions about small fixes/cleanups by Daniel Campbell
1 On 09/19/2016 09:51 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote:
2 > On 09/14/2016 06:21 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
3 >> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:45:58 -0400
4 >> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
5
6 ..
7
8 >>
9 > Why are those ebuilds not live? If upstream doesn't do real releases and
10 > can't even be bothered to tag the commit that marks a release, then why
11 > are you (or someone else) doing all this work? The snapshot scripts
12 > could be replaced by a live ebuild and upstream can handle bugs as they
13 > come since they can't be bothered to version their software.
14
15 I would expect because live ebuilds can't be keyworded, so snapshot is
16 the correct way to do it.
17
18 That said; I'm not sure if it makes sense to include this sort of
19 scripts in the Gentoo tree instead of a separate git repo e.g for the
20 project.
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23 Kristian Fiskerstrand
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