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Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017, 11:19:02 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: |
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> On Monday, 9 October 2017 20:20:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > I don't really see how you can repeatedly release new versions of |
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> > something without changing the version number, but maybe that's just me... |
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> No, it isn't just you. What you describe is a classic example of a developer |
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> trying to hide his mistakes - strictly unprofessional. It would not have |
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> been allowed anywhere I've worked. |
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> I know that volunteers are hard to find, but even so ... |
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> Good work spotting the trail, by the way. |
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It's actually simpler than that: ebuilds do not need a revision bump when |
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fixing compilation errors, since the ebuild remains uninstalled [0]. And if |
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you /were/ able to build it, you won't profit from a revbump, either (in fact, |
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people tend to loudly complain about unnecessary rebuilds). So, no, it most |
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likely is /not/ someone trying to hide their mistakes. Never mind that the |
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changes are easy to find in Gentoo's version control history [1], which |
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references bug #633640, which in turn reveals that they were trying to fix a |
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build error, but accidentally caused another in the process. So, yeah, so |
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much hiding going on here! |
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[0] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/ |
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[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/?qt=grep&q=firefox |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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