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From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New QA policy suggestion: Disallow "live-only" packages
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:58:35
Message-Id: 20201103105828.GA18482@fir
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New QA policy suggestion: Disallow "live-only" packages by Joonas Niilola
1 On 2020-11-03 Tue 01:28, Joonas Niilola wrote:
2 > Initially Arfrever suggested the same, I wasn't a fan of it because I
3 > believe it's much simpler to make this into a pkgcheck/repoman check like
4 > this.
5 >
6 > However with pkgcheck maybe a similar logic can be used as is used with
7 > StableRequestCheck. So no objections there I guess.
8
9 That's simple to achieve with pkgcheck's git support. LiveOnlyCheck now
10 flags packages with only live ebuilds that were all added at least a
11 year ago [1].
12
13 [1]: https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/commit/df4e40c2c2