Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:48:20 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 03:22:11PM +0300, Sergei Trofimovich wrote:
> > Hello World!
> > 
> > TL;DR:
> >   This evening I plan to mangle ~3000 ebuilds in the main tree
> >   by dropping trailing '.' in all 'DESCRIPTION=' fields (except
> > "etc." case)
> > 
> > Long story:
> > 
> > As you may know newest portage release 2.2.11
> > got a minor (but chatty) QA warning:
> >     DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character
> 
> Why is this a QA warning in the first place?

It isn't or shouldn't be; in the future, it would be nice if this type
passes by QA / Council before being acked into the Portage tree code.

Looking at the commit, the ack / commit has completely bypassed QA; we
also were not involved on the related bug, thus we were unaware of it.

> I don't recall a policy mandating that descriptions can't end with
> '.'. I asked our QA lead about it and was told that he didn't recall
> that we have an official policy about it either. Also, the devmanual
> never mentions any such requirement.

It has been a common belief to drop '.' among some from what I've seen.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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