Re: [gentoo-dev] is this newsitem worthy?

[Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>]

On 08/21/2016 15:31, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
> 
> take a look at the discussion on
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591414, in particular the last
> few comments.
> 
> My question is, is the emerge action newsitem worthy as Mark suggests?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William

I think it is.  I was scratching my head over some of these warnings, wondering
why no one has fixed some of them yet.  For the less-used packages, such as
sys-apps/timer_entropyd, without a revbump, I'd not have thought that simply
re-merging the package on all of my systems would update the init script and
make the warning go away.

IMHO, such a change *should* have been a revbump, and, if that was the only
change to that package, that revbump should have gone straight to stable since
it doesn't really represent a significant change (and issues regarding such a
change should have already been worked out).  OTOH, if there were other things
that could be fixed in a package, then pack this change into the rest and
follow the normal stabilization process.

As for the "--quiet --quiet" bit...that's a bit obtuse.  The message being
output is only using an "ewarn", so it's not a critical error and should have
been squelched with the first --quiet.  I'd either update the message to an
"eerror" to get attention or add a note about the double-quiets somewhere (or
add a new switch, --stfu, to do the job </smirk>).

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