On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 16:50 +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > For a good while now, I have been obsoleting ebuild attachments on as > yet unassigned bug reports and pasting proper unified diffs into > comments. I have been doing this so that the maintainers of these > ebuilds see the actual changes instead of a giant blob of code that the > submitter of the ebuild might want to see in the tree replacing the > original ebuild. Previously I also posted a notice asking submitters to > post unified diffs instead of entire ebuilds, but this didn't have a > noticeable effect so I discontinued that practice in favour of > just posting the unified diffs. > > Unfortunately, this means that I sometimes get credit for posting > such comments. Please make note of the ebuild/diff replacement and > attribute the changes correctly to the submitter, not the messenger. I > shouldn't be getting the credit for them at all. > > > Regards, > jer >
Thank you for the extra effort. I appreciate it, although for the one I had recently, it made it harder. I had just migrated the ebuild to the new python eclasses. So the diff included the reversal of those changes too. -- Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org>
