Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: automatically mailing people on pkgcheck problems with their packages

["Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org>]

On 12/7/15 7:27 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> 2) Unclear ownership of the problem. One guy makes a commit, 100 packages
>> break. Who is responsible? Its really murky. This is really the toughest
>> problem to me.
> It isn't murky at all.  Nobody should ever commit something that
> simply breaks something else.  Sometimes it is unforseen, and that
> might be ok if it is rare, but the committer can still go and revert
> their commit and sort things out.

Does that include stuff that breaks on systems using musl instead of
glibc?  Or uclibc?  or eudev instead of udev.  What about openrc vs
systemd?  Shall I go on?  Of course its murky.  If you disagree, I'll be
more than happy to pull out dozens of emails where people object when
their stuff breaks other people's stuff with the infamous "why should we
support that shit?"

Anyhow, if the emails are easily filter or have an easy out, I see no
problem.  Murky or not.

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