On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, David Sparks wrote:
> Chris Gianelloni wrote:
>> 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
>
> Not really. I don't think that QA Notices belong as expected output in
> "release" versions of anything. They're great for betas though.
Agreed. When this happens during builds involving ~arch keywords, I
think it's fine. When it happens during a sync ("QA Notice: USE Flag
'python' not in IUSE for dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.9"), I think, "I hope I've
somehow enabled processing that regular users don't see, cuz that looks
bad." When it happens during a build that does not rely on any ~arch
keywords, I think it's a problem.
That being said, I personally haven't seen any such QA notices lately,
and IIRC, the last time I had seen some, there was a stink on this list
before I got to reporting them.
Ed
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