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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:13:32 +0000 Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> |
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| On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 21:40 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > The issue is whether you have the right to leave broken packages in |
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| > the tree. I don't see any policy document granting you that right. |
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| From a discussion in #-portage, I understand that ferringb has already |
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| told the QA team that file clashes in distfiles is legitimate, and has |
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| no interest in implementing DEST_PREFIX support to tackle the |
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| problem. |
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Which is probably a good thing, since there's exactly one affected set |
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of packages... |
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| > | Please stop spreading FUD, and libelling my name here. |
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| > You've closed that bug five times now without fixing it. |
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| Yes I have. |
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| I carefully considered the QA team's concerns, and the proposed |
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| solutions, and felt that - in this specific case - the bug doesn't |
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| have enough merit. And then the bug degenerated into the QA team |
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| being repeatedly asked - and unable to provide - any evidence that |
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| they're entitled to push for the package to be removed. |
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There are plenty of options you could have taken rather than repeatedly |
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closing the bug off. From the looks of the rest of this thread, you've |
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decided to go with one of these options. A comment on the bug saying |
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"I don't like the proposed fix. Here's how I'd solve it" would be fine. |
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Repeatedly closing the bug off and trying to pretend that there isn't a |
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problem when there is is not. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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