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From: Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:59:35
Message-Id: 7c612fc60610300454i4f60c2eaufb01a7e18f711d65@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees by Jason Wever
1 On 10/30/06, Jason Wever <weeve@g.o> wrote:
2 > Please triple check what you want to commit and verify that you don't do
3 > any of the following (which are punishable by death):
4 >
5 > 1) remove the last ebuild that is keyworded for a given arch, especially
6 > when resulting in broken dependencies.
7 >
8 > 2) remove the last stable ebuild for an architecture
9 >
10 > 3) remove the last testing ebuild for an architecture when there is no
11 > stable ebuild available after the removal
12 >
13 > Consider yourself warned. Violation of any of these will cause the
14 > jforman death goat squad to be dispatched to your location for a discreet
15 > hit. For repeat offenders, public executions will be had, with Spanky
16 > hosting.
17
18 1) Would it be a good idea for repoman to detect these when scanning
19 for QA issues ?
20
21 2) Would it be a good idea for repoman to alert QA (and possibly the
22 jforman death goat squad) in real time when a dev commits such
23 violations (and others) ? This could enable other devs to act right
24 away and avoid havoc to spread too far.
25
26 Denis.
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