Hanspeter Niederstrasser <hanspe...@snaggledworks.com> said: > Running 'fink -m --build-as-nobody libfaad1-shlibs' gives this as part > of the output: > > ... > Validating package file > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/appleotffonts.info... > Package looks good! > Validating package file > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/applesystemfonts.info... > ... > (and 35 other .info files that validate correctly) > > So I cancel, and then manually try to install a few of the 71 needed > packages: > > $ fink -m --build-as-nobody build xz appleotffonts applesystemfonts > audiofile audiofile-bin audiofile-shlibs > Information about 10693 packages read in 0 seconds. > Running in Maintainer Mode > Validating package file > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/xz.info... > Package looks good! > Validating package file > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/appleotffonts.info... > Warning: Length of package description exceeds 45 characters. > (appleotffonts.info) > Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again! > > Easy enough to fix the offending file, but the validator should be > consistent.
A few of the pedantic validation tests are disabled for indirectly-handled packages. Tests that indicate something serious or functionally at risk are still enabled. The reason is that maintainers are working on *their* packages, so they shouldn't have to fix minor formatting bugs in "not their package" while they are working on their own package. At the time -m mode was added (and still) maintainers tend(ed) to ignore the length-limits, and complained that package development was being blocked by others' mistakes. So until we do a sweep to fix it and come down harder on maintainers who commit packages that don't validate, that's still a valid complaint. I'm not opposed to that sort of validation pass. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
