Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman --nonag (was Re: gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings )

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 01:25:44PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> > I don't consider a recommended style message to be 'broken' just
> > because it's not listed in the devmanual/PMS/etc as a requirement.
> > The implementation of it, on the other hand, yes that could be broken
> > and in this case should be fixed if we keep the check around.
> >
> 
> If we are bothered enough by something to have repoman check it, we
> can be bothered enough to add it to the devmanual.

I also think "that something" should be added to the devmanual before it
is added to repoman so that developers aren't blind-sided by repoman
warnings like this.


> I think we need to decide whether we care about periods at the ends of
> DESCRIPTIONs.  If we do, then it should be a warning and devs should
> fix their ebuilds at the next convenient opportunity.  If we don't,
> then let's just drop the warning.
 
I think some will have periods and some won't depending on how the
description is written, so this warning is not one that should stay.

William


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