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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 07:15:31
Message-Id: u5yoae7lp@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman by Zoltan Puskas
1 >>>>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2022, Zoltan Puskas wrote:
2
3 [Please don't top-post.]
4
5 > I've been using both repoman _and_ pkgcheck becasue I was not sure which
6 > one covers all the checks I need to make. In fact [Pull Requests
7 > wiki](https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:GitHub/Pull_requests) has a
8 > big red warning box with the following message, and I quote:
9
10 > "CI is not an excuse not to run repoman full, at least for the packages
11 > being committed."
12
13 That warning box also says: "Furthermore, pkgcheck is imperfect (yet
14 very fast) and may fail to notice some subtle breakages (especially if
15 USE flag masking/forcing) is involved."
16
17 Looks like the warning was added by mgorny in 2016 [1]. Have these
18 issues with pkgcheck been fixed in the meantime?
19
20 Ulrich
21
22 [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Project%3AGitHub%2FPull_requests&type=revision&diff=575482&oldid=575480

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating repoman "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>