On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> delete it and be done > > +1 > >> When I asked a few days ago the arugment was made that it will be >> expanded when the ebuilds hit rsync, and then users can reference >> these when submitting bugs so that devs know what revision they're >> using/etc. It was stated that this was a highly-requested feature. > > If this is "a highly-requested feature" then some discussion or other > reference to it should exist in mailing lists. I can neither remember > nor can I find such a discussion.
FYI, there has been one bug report about it since the git migration happened. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557386 To quote the reporter: "Whilst many users may not care, this makes it much more difficult to tell whether a change has been made to an ebuild without a version-bump - and in my specific case, I maintain an overlay repo which attempts to track upstream, and this has removed my ability to (again, easily) tell if a minor update has been made to an ebuild I've overlaid."
