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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:55:09PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:42:23PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > > Was just brought to my attention that the =* operator doesn't work |
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> > > as I thought, as for example =foo-1.2* matches foo-1.20 as well as |
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> > > foo-1.2.3. |
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> <snip> |
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> > > but I'd suspect that many people share my original assumption and |
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> > > expect it to only match full version components |
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> > Hear a bit of screaming from it once every 4-6 months; personally, I |
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> > interpret that as devs know which to use usually- additionally, once |
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> > the (bluntly) hissy fit from the dev subsides, and they're reminded |
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> > "yes it's annoying, but if you want it changed take it to dev to get |
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> > consensus" folks promptly forget about it. |
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> You mean a consensus on -dev like the one regarding the Sunrise project? |
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> > Either they're silently working around it, or it's not that much of an |
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> > issue (I suspect the latter, but am neutral towards the change). |
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> Or ignoring it because it's not worth the heartache. Or they feel it to |
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> be more likely that their input will be rejected by devs who just don't |
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> feel like working on it, but also don't want their babies touched by |
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> foreign hands. See Bug #69343 and everything marked as a dupe against it |
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> for a fine example of that mentality. |
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Either you're trolling, or your whinging (bluntly). |
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Either way, it's not even remotely related to an EAPI bump, so |
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kindly don't thread hijack (got enough of that going on in sunrise |
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thread already). |
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~harring |
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