On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 17:55 -0800, David Sparks wrote: > Recently when doing some builds I saw a bunch of lines that looked like: > > PLEASE UPDATE TO YOUR PACKAGE TO USE linux-info.eclass > > I don't really know what I'm supposed to do about that, it seems to be a > message targeted at the devs of certain ebuilds (ie linux-headers). It > appears that the ebuild author wasn't doing things in "an approved" way, > so emerge sends out a bunch of warnings to try to get them to fix the > problem. > > To me, this looks like an internal finger pointing being brought into > the open ie Fix your software, no you fix yours, no I'm gonna put a > message saying yours is broken, etc... This stuff should be in bugzilla > and on the lists. > > The engrish, all caps and getting repeated 20 times indicate that this > went out without sufficient review.
Would it have been better if it would have said: QA Notice: Please update to linux-info.eclass ?? Does it really make a difference? Nobody is doing any finger pointing. In fact, it is probably a developer, or a group of developers, pointing out to other developers that may or may not know that they should be using the newer interface. Perhaps by doing this, they were hoping to get bug reports generated on the packages, rather than having to scour the tree to find them all and file individual bugs. In any case, it wasn't any developer trying to single out another. The sky is not falling. The world is not ending. Move along, folks. There's nothing to see here. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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