On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:36:23AM +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > On 07/08/07, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in an ideal world, yes ... in the real world however, i wouldnt trust it > > -mike > > You wouldn't trust what, exactly? A dev to install a package they're > bumping? Surely everyone does that before they call echangelog and > repoman? > sure...except in another thread, we're saying it's ok for non-maintainers to bump packages, and i'm here to tell you, when that happens they rarely confirm things like missing deps or whether it dies during a build. most often, when a non-maintainer bumps a package its because they need the newer version and feel competent enough to do the bump themselves (regardless of whether they know what they're looking at). the || die would bite us in those cases - don't know about you all, but i get more than annoyed at bugs on package bumps for bumps that weren't coordinated with the maintainer.
bah. my last two cents. ~mcummings
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