On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 01:25:44PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > I don't consider a recommended style message to be 'broken' just > > because it's not listed in the devmanual/PMS/etc as a requirement. > > The implementation of it, on the other hand, yes that could be broken > > and in this case should be fixed if we keep the check around. > > > > If we are bothered enough by something to have repoman check it, we > can be bothered enough to add it to the devmanual.
I also think "that something" should be added to the devmanual before it is added to repoman so that developers aren't blind-sided by repoman warnings like this. > I think we need to decide whether we care about periods at the ends of > DESCRIPTIONs. If we do, then it should be a warning and devs should > fix their ebuilds at the next convenient opportunity. If we don't, > then let's just drop the warning. I think some will have periods and some won't depending on how the description is written, so this warning is not one that should stay. William
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