On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 21:40 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The issue is whether you have the right to leave broken packages in the > tree. I don't see any policy document granting you that right.
From a discussion in #-portage, I understand that ferringb has already told the QA team that file clashes in distfiles is legitimate, and has no interest in implementing DEST_PREFIX support to tackle the problem. Unfortunately, I don't have a mailing list post or an IRC log of that discussion between ferringb and the QA team to reference here :( > Sure. And if upstream won't even cooperate to the extent of renaming a > file, how do you expect them to react when we require something less > trvial? It's still not the issue here, no matter how you try and re-introduce it to the discussion. > It's so bad a problem that you even had to document it in the user > guide and tell people to use some nasty hacked workaround. "so bad a problem"? "nasty hacked workaround"? I don't understand why you feel the need to be so alarmist over this. > We don't have a legitimate demonstration package, and we're not going > to go and ask the Portage team to make code changes to support > hypothetical speculation. You're the only one with a test case here. I don't agree - you're the ones making a mountain out of a grain of sand - but anyway. I've had a chat in #-portage, and there's no support for adding DEST_PREFIX into Portage at this time. > | Please stop spreading FUD, and libelling my name here. > > You've closed that bug five times now without fixing it. Yes I have. I carefully considered the QA team's concerns, and the proposed solutions, and felt that - in this specific case - the bug doesn't have enough merit. And then the bug degenerated into the QA team being repeatedly asked - and unable to provide - any evidence that they're entitled to push for the package to be removed. What's your excuse? :) Best regards, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://blog.stuartherbert.com/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C --
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