On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:17:40 +0200, Max Horn wrote: > Am 18.04.2011 um 17:49 schrieb Daniel Macks: > There are some cases were the validator incorrectly complains about > perfectly fine packages. Currently, in such cases, the package > maintainer then is forced to either make weird unnatural hacks to > fool the validator (YUCK), or has to live without being able to use > -m. > > A concrete example are the geant4.8 and geant4.9 packages, for which > the validator complains about them hardcoding /sw. In reality, > though, the *upstream* authors hardcoded /sw, and the .info file > tries to fix this by replacing /sw with %p.
Can you convert it to a PatchFile? Val is smart enough to know that removing hardcoded /sw is a Good Thing, so "removed" lines *are* allowed to have it. Val could have a similar intelligence in PatchScript, where we decide on some blessed incantation for this "replacing /sw with prefix" useful action. For example, "hardcoded /sw is allowed in PatchScript iff it's in this exact string: ,/sw,%p," because I can't think of any way that string could be used in other ways. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
