From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7551D138010 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E127E06B7 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48DF21C055 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id q8TG4xU2027497 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:04:59 +0200 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q8TG4xYH024005; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:04:59 +0200 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q8TG4x2G024003; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:04:59 +0200 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <20583.7211.128410.806714@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:04:59 +0200 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012 In-Reply-To: <20120929165131.60d8a6af@googlemail.com> References: <20120925092414.GL37574@gentoo.org> <20577.32914.7474.976710@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20579.61409.451891.521881@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20120929165131.60d8a6af@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 23.4.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller X-Archives-Salt: a310a0c4-849c-43da-8ad6-61307ea5cdbc X-Archives-Hash: 7eb52f8dfe6fc5721b757bd192930b94 >>>>> 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