Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:38:39
Message-Id: 20060712213210.GC952@olive.flatmonk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default by Jakub Moc
1 Jakub Moc wrote: [Wed Jul 12 2006, 05:11:01PM EDT]
2 > Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying
3 > than an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just
4 > because upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt
5 > and noone noticed during version bump, or because someone made
6 > a typo there. Fail to see any benefit from this... :S Ditto for
7 > manpages.
8
9 The point is to catch the problems at version-bump time or typo-time
10 rather than put a broken ebuild into portage. IMHO this change can
11 mean nothing but goodness for the overall quality of the portage tree.
12
13 Surely you don't go around version-bumping and typo-ing without
14 testing prior to commit, right?
15
16 Regards,
17 Aron