Hi, On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:36:08AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> I haven't written any scripts which modify specfiles, only scripts which > find issues. And in any case: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_package_changes#Automated_cleanup > > Besides... this is git. And rawhide. If I broke something seriously > then I or any maintainer or any provenpackager can revert the commit. > > Really, if we just waited until every spec maintainer had a chance to > ack every script that's used to modify packages, there would be no point > in ever trying to do automated cleanup. Sorry, but my work with Fedora > will be aimed towards progress, not sitting around not changing anything > for fear of potentially breaking something. > > The removals of %defattr that I did a few hours ago were done by hand, > not scripted. I don't doubt that there's a reasonable chance that I > could have screwed up one or two out of nearly 2700 packages. That's > life. thank you Jason for doing this. IMHO we need to embrace this approach. As you write, it is the path for progress and I hope we have more of these automatic cleanups to reduce the need for manual interventions as much as possible. Kind regards Till _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E6LI3KR274QO243SSCOL3WNXGWR3NIJY/
