* 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
To: gentoo-dev
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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