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On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:45, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:35:12 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | * Just because breaking policy breaks a QA tool, but is guaranteed to |
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> | never break itself (formatting policy, like space vs. tab etc.) |
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> | does not increase the severity of the breakage. |
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> I'd argue against this one. See, it's possible to deliberately |
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> circumvent some of repoman's checks by doing weird whitespace and syntax |
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> trickery. There's also no way to fix repoman short of writing a fully |
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> functional bash parsing tool -- which is complicated enough that even |
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> bash doesn't have one that works in some releases... |
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I'm also convinced that deliberate circumvention is easy to detect. QA should |
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be able to fix these issues on itself anyway. If people deliberately subvert |
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QA in these kinds of way, In my opinion, they are in need of a serious talk |
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with devrel. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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