From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F4A138DBC for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 582FEE0A01; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 364FCE09F9 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:25:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-74-77-145-97.buffalo.res.rr.com [74.77.145.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5BDC433DAC8 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52FCE414.7070002@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:26:12 -0500 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Should we allow picture files in the Portage tree? References: <21244.57571.465017.684762@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <21244.57571.465017.684762@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 325ff937-9a2b-47d7-9b1d-be77f9339411 X-Archives-Hash: 796b4bee1180276485e085fae7bf313b On 02/13/2014 10:12 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > When rewriting the script scanning for binary files in the Portage > tree [1], I noticed that there are some 25 XPM and SVG image files, > with sizes up to 13 kB. > > For the time being, I've added exceptions for MIME types image/svg+xml > and image/x-xpmi [2], but I think it would be better to clarify our > policy on this. The devmanual currently says: > > | Things that do not belong in the tree: > | * Large patches > | * Non-text files > | * Photos of teletubbies > | * Files whose name starts with a dot > > Should we allow pictures if the image file format is a text file? Yes, provided it fits all the other criteria, ie small and does not contain teletubbies. The problem as I understand it, is with version control systems work with text files only, irrespect of what those text files encode. > > Ulrich > > [1] http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/find-binary-files.txt > [2] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/qa-scripts.git;a=blob;f=find-binary-files.sh;hb=HEAD -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA