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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:09:31 -0500
From: "Dan Meltzer" <parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
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On 2/28/06, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:38 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Sheesh, you'll probably claim that this isn't broken next too:
> >
> > if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then
> > einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}"
> >
> > emerge -C "${REMOVE_PKG}"
> > fi
> Ciaran,
> (and this is valid for all emails to technical lists,)
> please save us some time and many emails by stating what is wrong when
> you show a QA violation.
> Many among us don't think in assembler and don't know enough about the
> code to decide if/why something is wrong. This in turn causes someone
> (like me) to send an email asking what is wrong, causing another reply
> by you etc. etc.
>
> It's a bit like me stating:
> "The bug is in line 14:
> i+=2
> "
> If you don't know the code you won't understand why.
>
> Now if I said "line 14 increments by two, but then you won't ever get
> out of the loop since the exit condition won't be met" everyone could
> understand it and evaluate my statement.
>
> If you show a wrong code snippet please explain _why_ it is wrong in the
> same email.
I believe the bug is calling emerge from within the eclass.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
> --
> Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
>
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