Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/1] [RFC] greadme.eclass

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 11:39 +0100, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> Even if we say it is the user's fault, then the problem of handling a 
> decompressor failure would still exist. The eclass does not gracefully 
> continue when decompressing the doc file, but instead it runs into a 
> die(). To address this we would need to make unpacker.eclass and 
> unpack() aware of nonfatal. The latter would require a PMS change.
> 
> Or, I could duplicate unpack logic --- which is probably a lot to 
> account for the various compression options --- in the eclass. But I 
> suspect be both do not want that.

Perhaps this is the moment when you realize that there is no guarantee
that unpacker.eclass and/or unpack will support the compression format
set for docompress.  The two were never intended to interact.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny


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