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On 08/12/2014 03:48 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 03:22:11PM +0300, Sergei Trofimovich
> wrote:
>> Hello World!
>> 
>> TL;DR: This evening I plan to mangle ~3000 ebuilds in the main
>> tree by dropping trailing '.' in all 'DESCRIPTION=' fields
>> (except "etc." case)
>> 
>> Long story:
>> 
>> As you may know newest portage release 2.2.11 got a minor (but
>> chatty) QA warning: DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character
> 
> Why is this a QA warning in the first place?
> 
> I don't recall a policy mandating that descriptions can't end with
> '.'. I asked our QA lead about it and was told that he didn't
> recall that we have an official policy about it either. Also, the
> devmanual never mentions any such requirement.
> 
> If someone can point me to something I'm missing, let me know. 
> Otherwise, I think the warning should be removed.
> 
> William
> 

These links might be helpful:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=06637c4215d55c57517739214c6e0fd6f8f53914

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438976

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/80786


What's still missing is a patch for devmanual (if we still really want
to enforce this).


Manuel
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