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From: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: isodate for packages.mask starting on 2019-07-01
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 13:23:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d911be8-ff65-f6ae-a842-1a7d1bac4317@gentoo.org> (raw)


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Dear all,

Situation:
We have different date formats in packages.mask.


Change:
I suggest that we start using the date format yyyy-mm-dd
for all dates in packages.mask
starting with 2019-07-01

The following changes in packages.mask will introduce the date format,
specify the timezone, and use Larry as example user.

3,6c3,6
< # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the
date, and
< # an explanation of why something is getting masked. Please be extremely
< # careful not to commit atoms that are not valid, as it can cause
large-scale
< # breakage, especially if it ends up in the daily snapshot.
---
> # When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the date
> # in the UTC timezone, and an explanation of why something is getting
masked.
> # Please be extremely careful not to commit atoms that are not valid,
as it can
> # cause large-scale breakage, especially if it ends up in the daily
snapshot.
10c10
< ## # Dev E. Loper <developer@gentoo.org> (28 Jun 2012)
---
> ## # Larry the cow <larry@gentoo.org> (2019-07-01)
24,26c24,26
< ## # Dev E. Loper <developer@gentoo.org> (23 May 2015)
< ## # Masked for removal in 30 days.  Doesn't work
< ## # with new libfoo. Upstream dead, gtk-1, smells
---
> ## # Larry the cow <larry@gentoo.org> (2019-07-01)
> ## # Masked for removal after 2019-08-01.
> ## # Doesn't work with new libfoo. Upstream dead, gtk-1, smells


Reason:
* Larry is the Gentoo Example
* 2019-01-01 + 30 days is unclear, if we do not use UTC time
* The new date format is easy to read and write and easy to parse
internationally.

Do you have any objections?


By the way, you can get a formatted string of now in UTC with:
date -u +"%Y-%m-%d"

-- 
Best,
Jonas


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             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-29 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-29 11:23 Jonas Stein [this message]
2019-06-29 11:39 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: isodate for packages.mask starting on 2019-07-01 Fabian Groffen
2019-06-29 12:54   ` Jonas Stein
2019-06-29 12:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2019-06-29 12:30   ` Jonas Stein
2019-06-29 12:20 ` Benda Xu
2019-06-29 12:55   ` Jonas Stein
2019-07-01  0:29 ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonas Stein
2019-07-01  7:30   ` Michał Górny
2019-07-02 15:16     ` Jonas Stein
2019-07-02 15:33       ` Ulrich Mueller
2019-07-03 19:59 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kent Fredric

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