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Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni schrieb: |
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>> - arch-specific patches/dependencies - If someone is requesting KEYWORD |
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>> changes on a package and it requires a patch or additional dependencies |
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>> for your architecture, you are not only permitted, but really are |
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>> required to make the necessary changes to add support for your |
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>> architecture. |
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> And what is going to happen with the patch? Should go upstream, but |
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> who's responsible for that? |
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Er, the maintainer; if s/he's not bothered about the package compiling on |
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different archs, should s/he really be maintaining it? I doubt upstream |
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would appreciate that from a distro -- and it's not hard to file a quick |
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bug with a link to the gentoo one; a quick comment on the gentoo one and |
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any interested users can help upstream to triage it. |
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>> - metadata.xml changes |
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> With limitations. |
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Maintainer sounds like a definite no-no. Any others? |
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>> - Version bumps where the only requirement is to "cp" the ebuild |
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> Just "cp"'ing the ebuilds is the reason that so many ebuilds are still a |
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> nightmare and full of little nasty bugs. |
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> This is a complete no-go since there are so many things a careful |
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> maintainer has to consider (besides checking the packages changelog, the |
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> dependencies, the license, the docs, etc. he should also check the |
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> ebuild). |
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Yeah but if they can compile it and it works as an app (however that's |
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defined, this /is/ usr-land) what's the harm in bumping and allowing others |
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to test it? (This is unstable, I hope..) If they can't be bothered to do |
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that, how can they possibly claim to be testing it? (And why are they even |
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touching it if they're not interested? ;) [I dunno how make test fits into |
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this, either, as tests were broken for synfig.] |
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If the maintainer doesn't like it, well s/he's already got the new version |
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working on one arch/ machine (plus whichever user bugged the dev.) I can't |
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see anyone really bemoaning a new tester ;P |
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