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From: Jason Huebel <jhuebel@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:52:13
Message-Id: 200406221954.21977.jhuebel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed solution to arches/stable problem by Aron Griffis
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4 On Tuesday 22 June 2004 03:54 pm, Aron Griffis wrote:
5 > I'm a little confused about what you're saying here. I totally agree,
6 > there are exceptions. That fact has been stated numerous times in
7 > these threads, and I don't think anybody disagrees.
8 >
9 > Regarding avoiding a hard requirement, there would certainly be no
10 > need to "cvs commit" to get around the checking done by repoman.
11 > Personally I wouldn't be opposed to an option similar to -I to prevent
12 > developers from accidentally submitting such changes. Both -I and the
13 > new flag are for overriding repoman's QA checks. IMHO that is
14 > something that should be done seldom enough that it's not asking a lot
15 > from developers. Do you really think it would be that painful? :-(
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17 I only made another mention of that third requirement since you were outlining
18 them again in a declarative way. That is, these are the goals of
19 implementing this new QA procedure.
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21 I've only used -I a couple of times, myself. And in those cases, only because
22 another arch's keywording was screwy. My comment didn't advocate going
23 around repoman's checks, only that it;s important that this QA check not
24 cause repoman QA checking to fail entirely.
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