Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-18 Thread Ben de Groot
On 13 August 2014 02:46, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2014-08-11, o godz. 20:48:20 > William Hubbs napisał(a): >> > got a minor (but chatty) QA warning: >> > DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character >> >> Why is this a QA warning in the first place? > > Because it is a common mistake, and having t

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-13 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:48:20 -0500 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 > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Friends, the repoman patch is reverted. And that is the end of this. I do not have gx86 access, so if someone wants me to revert 3K commits there, I'll need a proxy... - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BE

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread hasufell
Chris Reffett: > > if people want to run this by Council I'll laugh my ass off if this thing makes it on the council agenda xD

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-08-11, o godz. 20:48:20 William Hubbs napisał(a): > 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Chris Reffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/12/2014 9:26 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: [snip] > I don't have a problem with QA recommending new tree policies, but > if they're going to do this the QA team ought to first ensure that > the team agrees (however they want to govern that), and then

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2014-08-11, o godz. 22:34:06 Bertrand Jacquin napisał(a): > Hi, > > On 2014-08-10 14:22, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > The script does not handle case of multiline description: > > DESCRIPTION="You have to > > clean that yourself." > > You could handle this by reading metadata/m

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:26:07AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: *snip* > Yeah, at best this seems a bit trivial. Do we have a policy that > descriptions aren't allowed to be complete sentences? Many of our > developers are not native English speakers in the first place, so > striving for gramma

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread hasufell
Rich Freeman: > so striving for grammatical perfection is a bit optimistic. In that case, we should just rm the repoman warning and stop discussing this matter.

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/08/14 08:47 AM, hasufell wrote: > William Hubbs: >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:59:30AM +0200, Manuel Rüger wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >> >> *snip* >> >>> These links might be helpful: >>> >>> http://git.overla

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, hasufell wrote: > > First, a sentence does not need to have a predicate. I know that for 99% > sure in german and the english wikipedia article seems to suggest the > same. Correct me if I am wrong. > In English your typical English class would teach that every se

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-12 Thread hasufell
William Hubbs: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:59:30AM +0200, Manuel Rüger wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA512 > > *snip* > >> These links might be helpful: >> >> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=06637c4215d55c57517739214c6e0fd6f8f53914

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-11 Thread Tyler Pohl
how to i get off these mailing lists? On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 7:42 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:59:30AM +0200, Manuel Rüger wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > *snip* > > > These links might be helpful: > > > > > http://git.overlays.gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-11 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 03:59:30AM +0200, Manuel Rüger wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 *snip* > These links might be helpful: > > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=06637c4215d55c57517739214c6e0fd6f8f53914 > > https://bugs.gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-11 Thread Manuel Rüger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 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 'DESCRI

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-11 Thread William Hubbs
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-11 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
Hi, On 2014-08-10 14:22, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: The script does not handle case of multiline description: DESCRIPTION="You have to clean that yourself." You could handle this by reading metadata/md5-cache/*/* instead of ebuild itself But is multiline DESCRIPTION something recomm

[gentoo-dev] gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings

2014-08-11 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
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