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 1FE0se-0000oy-Bq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:10:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1S91Bsl032440; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:01:11 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 k1S8jrh6007466 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:45:54 GMT Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FDpz5-0000PM-P3 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:32:48 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FDpz0-0000s5-Mw for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:32:42 +0000 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:32:39 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Message-ID: <20060227213239.5cf14f0d@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1141074742.826.35.camel@demandred.gnqs.org> References: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <1140997703.12229.166.camel@demandred.gnqs.org> <20060227003413.GE17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20060227170834.075e9388@snowdrop.home> <1141071970.804.19.camel@demandred.gnqs.org> <20060227203709.2a7bff47@snowdrop.home> <20060227204530.GO1516@toucan.gentoo.org> <20060227205445.057a91d9@snowdrop.home> <1141074742.826.35.camel@demandred.gnqs.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_VR/5l0AJakH+yJ=MODw.Qn+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 4d66818e-405d-4dc1-8c61-c689d42035db X-Archives-Hash: 934dae2f8364f90bfc645b30fedff3eb --Sig_VR/5l0AJakH+yJ=MODw.Qn+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:12:22 +0000 Stuart Herbert wrote: | This point is another example of an attempt to enforce an undocumented | QA policy, which is where I made my input, as the architect of our new | (and well-received) PHP packages. ... and then the discussion | deteriorated into something I'm not particularly proud of, for my part | in it. Huh? I quote the official policy: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3D2&chap=3D1 > Occasionally, ebuilds will have conflicting USE flags for > functionality. Checking for them and returning an error is not a > viable solution. Instead, you must pick one of the USE flags in > conflict to favour. One example comes from the msmtp ebuilds. The > package can use either SSL with GnuTLS, SSL with OpenSSL, or no SSL > at all. Because GnuTLS is more featureful than OpenSSL, it is > favoured: It's a QA violation, and not a feature as you claim. I find it particularly worrying that you try to pass of blatant policy violations as a feature. The first step in QA is detecting that there is a problem. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_VR/5l0AJakH+yJ=MODw.Qn+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEA2/696zL6DUtXhERAmIWAKCcgE5cB9YGyPk4aEhdIA1n9gzEKACfXKL2 BWKke/kISBALP8OzeUeQskQ= =CAc8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_VR/5l0AJakH+yJ=MODw.Qn+-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list