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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:04:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20583.7211.128410.806714@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120929165131.60d8a6af@googlemail.com>

>>>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

>>     d) Require a) for Package managers and b) by tree policy
>>        (Postel's Law, brought up by mgorny). Practically, this
>>        would mean that repoman would reject "foo-1" as package
>>        name, but the rest of Portage would accept it.

> Postel's Law is what lead to the current state of HTML and
> JavaScript, where everything has to be tested carefully on dozens of
> different browser versions and littered with workarounds. Accepting
> lax input just leads to lax input being provided...

Providing lax input is not at all Postel's Law, but the opposite of it.

In our case, strict input would be enforced with repoman.

Ulrich


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-29 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25  9:24 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012 Fabian Groffen
2012-09-25  9:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-27  6:19   ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-27 22:13     ` Brian Harring
2012-09-28  0:14       ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-28 12:12         ` Brian Harring
2012-10-03  5:04       ` Donnie Berkholz
2012-10-03  6:44         ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-03  6:56           ` Matt Turner
2012-10-03  8:31             ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-29 15:51     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-29 16:04       ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2012-09-29 16:10         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-25 19:32 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-02 11:30   ` Fabian Groffen
2012-10-03 17:18     ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-04 18:32       ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-05  6:28         ` Fabian Groffen
2012-10-05  6:41           ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-05  6:43           ` Patrick Lauer
2012-10-05  8:46             ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-05 10:31               ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-05 14:51                 ` Jeff Horelick
2012-10-05 17:35                 ` Pacho Ramos

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