Re: [gentoo-dev] Repoman and his automagic

[Lares Moreau]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 18:57 -0500, Alec Warner wrote:
> There are a couple of bugs against repoman that request repoman detect
> and do things for the developer.  The two cases are:
>
> repoman does not auto-commit new license files[1]
> repoman should cvs add files/ if it isn't already[2]
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30235
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32529

1.  This IMO is not a good Idea, licences need to be reviewed thoroughly
to ensure they are freely distributable.  The case I am thinking of: if
in the process of making a new ebuild, a copy of the licence is quickly
made, without thorough review, for convenience, then forgot about.  At
this point, if repoman auto-commits, the licence is never fully
reviewed. In packages that have more then one licence this scenario
becomes more plausible.
 
Yes, all licences should be considered before ebuilds are created, but
this may not always be the case.

2. No opinion

-Lares
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