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From: Guilherme Amadio <amadio@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman adding "Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1" to every single commit
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 18:04:52
Message-Id: 20150819180421.GA1652@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman adding "Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1" to every single commit by Zac Medico
1 On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:00:49AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 08/19/2015 10:49 AM, hasufell wrote:
3 > > On 08/19/2015 07:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
4 > >> On 08/19/2015 09:33 AM, hasufell wrote:
5 > >>> I don't want to start a lot of bikeshed, but I think this information is
6 > >>> practically useless.
7 > >>>
8 > >>> If there has been a problem with a commit, ask the developer about his
9 > >>> repoman version (which I believe was the reason for this, unless you
10 > >>> want me to add "Package-Manager: paludis-2.4.0" to every commit ;).
11 > >>>
12 > >>> Let's just remove it.
13 > >>>
14 > >>
15 > >> The intent is to leave a record of the version of repoman used, which
16 > >> leaves an audit trail in case there's a bug in some some version (or to
17 > >> detect if someone is using an ancient version). It can especially be
18 > >> useful when new repoman checks need to be added for new EAPI features.
19 > >>
20 > >
21 > > Why is it called "Package-Manager:" then?
22 >
23 > Because repoman in bundled with portage, I guess. I suppose we could
24 > change it to something else.
25
26 How about the line below?
27
28 Signed-off-by: <dev name> (repoman <version>)
29
30 Cheers,
31 —Guilherme