Re: [gentoo-dev] Beware DESCRIPTION clobbering

2006-02-20 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:46:01PM -0300, Marcelo Góes wrote: > I agree. Adding a package to a herd is basically the same as adding > someone as a package maintainer. If one doesn't belong to the target > herd, he/she should drop a line asking first. Some developers tend to think that if they just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Beware DESCRIPTION clobbering

2006-02-20 Thread Marcelo Góes
On 2/20/06, Michael Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'given' to us) but if you're (NOT ciaranm, general reply) going to add a > package and then proceed to assign it to a herd, it would be really keen > if you told the herd, or at least took care of the bugs you generated as > a result. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Beware DESCRIPTION clobbering

2006-02-20 Thread Michael Cummings
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 02:36 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > dev-perl/XML-AutoWriter-0.38: description: > major: DESCRIPTION equal to $PN? You can do better than that. slightly off topic (fixed btw - perl herd didn't add it, but it was 'given' to us) but if you're (NOT ciaranm, general reply) g

[gentoo-dev] Beware DESCRIPTION clobbering

2006-02-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Typical example: DESCRIPTION="I am a fish" inherit eutils End result: DESCRIPTION="Based on the eutils eclass" Some eclasses set DESCRIPTION. This is one of the many reasons that inherit should go as early up the ebuild as possible. List, which may be utterly wrong, of packages th