Hello Mark, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> skribis:
> It's true that it wouldn't change anything to simply remove those > ignored duplicate field initializers. However, I thought it would be > better to give people familiar with these packages an opportunity to > investigate. Someone may have had a good reason for adding those > inputs, even if they are not strictly needed for a successful build. > > Of course, at some point we should timeout on this. I would advocate > commenting out the redundant duplicates instead of simply deleting them, > along with a FIXME comment asking someone to investigate. We could also > look in the commit history to find out who added those redundant inputs, > and ask them directly. > > If you're impatient to get the duplicate field detection patch committed > soon, I could implement these "timeout" measures in the next couple of > days. I think we should go ahead now and mechanically fix packages with duplicate fields, and apply the duplicate detection patch. Would you like to do that? Thanks, Ludo’.
