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From: Jonas Stein <jstein@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: isodate for packages.mask starting on 2019-07-01
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:16:48
Message-Id: e9060620-a637-e068-7401-616ed9d012b1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: isodate for packages.mask starting on 2019-07-01 by "Michał Górny"
1 On 01/07/2019 09.30, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2019-07-01 at 02:29 +0200, Jonas Stein wrote:
3 >> Dear all,
4 >>
5 >>> [..]
6 >>> Change:
7 >>> I suggest that we start using the date format yyyy-mm-dd
8 >>> for all dates in package.mask
9 >>> starting with 2019-07-01
10 >>> [..]
11 >>
12 >> Thank you for your quick responses.
13 >> package.mask uses now ISO 8601 dates.
14 >>
15 >> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c621d104eb258b5fc4b05dfb9940bc26cab7f959
16 >>
17 >
18 > Could you also look into converting other profile files? They were
19 > known to have even less consistency than top-level package.mask.
20
21 Good point. I will have a look at it.
22 It will take some time, because the date formats there are mixed a lot
23 and we cannot convert it blind with a script.
24
25 --
26 Best,
27 Jonas

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