Re: [gentoo-dev] Is the $Id$ line in our ebuilds still useful?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Rich Freeman wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
>> delete it and be done

+1

> When I asked a few days ago the arugment was made that it will be
> expanded when the ebuilds hit rsync, and then users can reference
> these when submitting bugs so that devs know what revision they're
> using/etc.  It was stated that this was a highly-requested feature.

If this is "a highly-requested feature" then some discussion or other
reference to it should exist in mailing lists. I can neither remember
nor can I find such a discussion.

So, could someone please provide a pointer to when and where keeping
the $Id$ line was requested?

Ulrich