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On 01/02/2013 13:36, Michael Weber wrote: |
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> Yeah, but test for /usr/share/doc/${PF} (random to irrelevant), |
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Which I don't open bugs about any longer. |
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> $CFLAGS/$LDFLAGS/$AR (enable these miraculous setup), |
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WTF does "enable these miraculous setup" mean? Seriously. |
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Also, no I don't test or bother opening bugs for either $AR or $CC. I do |
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test for and open bugs for $CFLAGS/$LDFLAGS handling because _that is |
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what Gentoo is about_ and among other things they work as a good sanity |
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check. |
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> automake-1.12 (at |
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> what point in future do you see that as oldest in-tree) |
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Are you dense? If automake-1.12 is installed, the majority of the tree |
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_will_ use it. The fact that I test for it is to avoid you getting the |
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bugs from users who really want to use your package. |
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> last are no |
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> statement regarding a packages functionality on a plain system. |
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If the package is TFU, and nobody cares enough to fix it, the |
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functionality "on a plain system" is screwed up anyway. |
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If you can't be bothered to make your package comply with at least the |
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minimum style of the rest of the tree, I'd honestly prefer you gave up |
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tree access. |
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> Keep on the ground. |
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> I rather prefer a combined discussion on "principles" or workflow, than |
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> bringing up this discussion for every single package. |
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> This is a general Gentoo list, so the mails might get some kind of |
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> "general". |
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The problem here is that it's not general. It's fantasy. |
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I'm not saying that we should remove a package because it has one |
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trivial bug not fixed in three months. But when upstream is dead, and |
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nobody in Gentoo is caring for it, has half a dozen open bug (trivial or |
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not), unsolved or unsolvable for over an year... punt the crap from the |
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tree and reduce the overload. |
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Also, since you are a dev, instead of complaining at how team $x removes |
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their packages, you can step in and save the package. As Alec said |
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"Gentoo is not a software archival service." so arguing on the principle |
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that we should never delete any package from our tree is simply |
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preposterous. |
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Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes |
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