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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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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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