Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing

[Lars Wendler]

Hi,

On Tue, 2 May 2017 13:05:38 +0200 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:

>Paweł Hajdan, Jr. schrieb:
>
>>>> Please stop editing package lists when you are not the maintainer
>>>> and arches are already CCed.
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Please stop it.
>>> And yes that's also true for arch team members.
>>>
>>> Package list is maintainer territory.
>> Curious, what are the reasons and what changes people make that they
>> shouldn't?
>>
>> I'm wondering if there's some solution to these issues (maybe better
>> documentation, or an alternative way of accomplishing what these
>> people try to do).
>
>As dilfridge pur jer in CC, I guess that some of jer's changes to bugs
>were not welcomed by maintainers.
>
>One recent example of non-maintainer activity in the package list
>field is bug 613104, where he just removed the entire package list
>(and then marked the bug WONTFIX).
>Also very common is that he changes fully qualified package names
>(which is the correct syntax per [1]) into fully qualified package
>atoms (which is the legacy syntax). Bug 616260 is one such example.

I must admit that I did the same (changing full package names to full
package atoms). IIRC when these package lists were introduced this was
the only valid syntax and stable bot complained if it was not a package
atom.

>Best regards,
>Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
>
>[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html
>

Kind regards
Lars

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Lars Wendler
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