On Thursday 02 March 2006 17:45, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:35:12 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | * Just because breaking policy breaks a QA tool, but is guaranteed to > | never break itself (formatting policy, like space vs. tab etc.) > | does not increase the severity of the breakage. > > I'd argue against this one. See, it's possible to deliberately > circumvent some of repoman's checks by doing weird whitespace and syntax > trickery. There's also no way to fix repoman short of writing a fully > functional bash parsing tool -- which is complicated enough that even > bash doesn't have one that works in some releases...
I'm also convinced that deliberate circumvention is easy to detect. QA should be able to fix these issues on itself anyway. If people deliberately subvert QA in these kinds of way, In my opinion, they are in need of a serious talk with devrel. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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