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From: Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Beware DESCRIPTION clobbering
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:33:35
Message-Id: 1140467438.11332.5.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Beware DESCRIPTION clobbering by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 02:36 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > dev-perl/XML-AutoWriter-0.38: description:
4 > major: DESCRIPTION equal to $PN? You can do better than that.
5
6 slightly off topic (fixed btw - perl herd didn't add it, but it was
7 'given' to us) but if you're (NOT ciaranm, general reply) going to add a
8 package and then proceed to assign it to a herd, it would be really keen
9 if you told the herd, or at least took care of the bugs you generated as
10 a result. Maybe there should be a policy or something about not willy
11 nilly adding packages to a herd without some sort of exchange. And yes,
12 unfortunately we catch these things months, even a year later, then
13 scratch our heads on what happened.
14
15 /me steps off pulpit.
16
17 ~mcummings

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