[gentoo-dev] Re: Standard parsable format for profiles/package.mask file

[Jonas Stein]

Hi all,

I want to suggest a standard format for profiles/package.mask, for
multiple reasons:

Sounds sensible. +1

The first line of the "#"-prefixed explanation block must be of the
format "${AUTHOR_NAME} <${EMAIL}> (${SINGLE_DATE})" when the date is of
format YYYY-MM-DD, in UTC timezone.

                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can we drop this? Or, at least, relax this.

I usually just enter my locale date here and like to avoid having to think about that UTC is potentially in a different date. I also can not remember any situation where the date being in UTC matters. Plus, if you want accurate timestamps, then the git commit/author date is here for you. :)

I think for the same reason UTC full timestamp makes sense:





So I think you and I really want UTC here.

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Best,
Jonas

The person who adds an entry to the package.mask file does not care about a few hours and simply rounds the time up. The scripts which evaluate the .mask file have a proper time stamp. For a script it is trivial to work with time, if you have UTC in a standard format. But it is painful, if you just have a date and do not know the timezone.

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