On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:07:09 +0100 Theo Chatzimichos <[email protected]> wrote:
> these days I am working on a puppet module for portage. For testing I > have created a dummy package which can be found here [1]. The package > installs files based on useflags, and it comes in stable, testing and > hardmasked versions, plus it has some useflag changes between > versions. With this package I can make sure that the puppet provider > does its various operations fine. I'm about to start writing unit > tests for that provider, and I would like to use that package for the > testing. It would be preferred to move that package in tree though. > Since the ebuilds are useless for everybody else, and maybe violate > policy about the stable tree, I'd like to know if there are any > objections to move it to tree. If there are none, I'll move it in one > month > > [1] https://github.com/gentoo-el/overlay/tree/master/app-misc/dummy To be honest, I don't mind having dummy packages in the tree. I would be happy to convert gentoopm sometime to use them instead of relying on random packages to match its criteria. However, I'd rather see them in a special category, and preferably prefixed with 'gentoo-' to make it least possible for any kind of name collisions. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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