From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmLIN-0000pr-2w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:19:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBE1IIH3005772; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:18:18 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBE1GQXg003281 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:16:27 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EmLFq-0003JO-8s for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:16:26 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EmLFn-0007UC-Qc for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:16:23 +0000 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:16:21 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Textrels in packages policy Message-ID: <20051214011621.6b9a9b8b@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051214010227.GA14380@aerie.halcy0n.com> References: <20051213205903.GA27045@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20051213223059.GA2065@gentoo.org> <20051214002236.GA1863@toucan.gentoo.org> <20051214010227.GA14380@aerie.halcy0n.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_jtKEXDkO++l.8/0=rFOCEVt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: c591af31-934f-4053-95bd-77dd34aeb920 X-Archives-Hash: c32b3a954915345d8a625abbdd6f8dcd --Sig_jtKEXDkO++l.8/0=rFOCEVt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:02:27 -0500 Mark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org> wrote: | You are working on a policy, or just docs to explain the issues? | From what was listed above, I'm not sure why we should require that | people fix these issues just to have a package deemed stable. Some people want no TEXTRELs to be a requirement because they're superstitious, or because they read somewhere that TEXTRELs are naughty and are repeating the conclusion without understanding the underlying reasons. It's approximately on par with trying to ban all code that uses 'goto' because it breaks certain security auditing tools that rely upon call graphs. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_jtKEXDkO++l.8/0=rFOCEVt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDn3Jn96zL6DUtXhERAmpoAJ9DWSaMJViF9RVLZ8akH2x98g0M9gCgouax l2vy6tj2OsZf9TquKVirPfY= =YnX4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_jtKEXDkO++l.8/0=rFOCEVt-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list