On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:48:20 -0500 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> 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? It isn't or shouldn't be; in the future, it would be nice if this type passes by QA / Council before being acked into the Portage tree code. Looking at the commit, the ack / commit has completely bypassed QA; we also were not involved on the related bug, thus we were unaware of it. > 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. It has been a common belief to drop '.' among some from what I've seen. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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