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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Contribute many ebuilds at once
  @ 2002-06-09 21:53 99% ` Marko Mikulicic
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From: Marko Mikulicic @ 2002-06-09 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> 

> 
> The biggest problem for the maintainers is the varying quality of ebuilds.
> Few, if any submissions are correct on the first go, and many of the
> bugs/problems identified could be checked programmatically.
> 
> Submissions should then be run through a "screening" script that checks
> for syntactic and semantic completeness, verifies dependencies,
> well-formedness of ebuild, digest, changelog, etc.
> 
> If any of these tests fail, the submitter is notified, and no developers'
> time is wasted needlessly until the ebuild script follows all the basic
> guidelines and its sources actually compile.
> 

insightful.
Do you have a prototype of this new system or the "screening" script ?

Should the package submitter decide in which cathegory its'
package should go, and how should the RCS string (in ChangeLog + 
*.ebuild's third line) be formatted ?

Marko









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