-----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 '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? > > 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. > > If someone can point me to something I'm missing, let me know. > Otherwise, I think the warning should be removed. > > William >
These links might be helpful: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=06637c4215d55c57517739214c6e0fd6f8f53914 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438976 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/80786 What's still missing is a patch for devmanual (if we still really want to enforce this). Manuel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJT6XUCXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4MDA1RERERkM0ODM2QkE4MEY3NzY0N0M1 OEZCQTM2QzhEOUQ2MzVDAAoJEFj7o2yNnWNcJ8kP/RPn7b+TO/KJef2qdkuDQ7r9 6A86HEylCFMoKDJKk8jV4ne+Ns/zDydiD+JNWidOfdNpiVHbs9FA+WYW+mLzo4dB MvcsQ03afPC320z817RAYjPJAg+SRI+RmTy+0d9v65wuwjowNY+uOReCAvjEBiCu Qe5yEmMzhrGDud+xV7RveNsByXhSmZuDxFM+qsDc/+T2iBf+oX1x7jKSd9rMQP5d A/Q6dB3/54QQxkAkawFMuyYl/FX2WvE/QSDqJD8S8R7KWM2nEGNP9S7F83F6RZJd yPrV3GpVwrY/A7K995MHCkdM1/lSg2h0+48Q/P4frJCvE5yfAkYYmo0THx/7/DNA XVpcrq1/31wgmYATa1qacF6NHSwWqt0+JMQTn4HDw8WajIkdiMbJ4x9VIbFcvRT2 GcbsE2zPYEeybK7OdslA9V6Am8M0rDWby+r1S+QKwTvWXJDRQndUmrNTD5riLU8R RG+vhLm+U+u2tSn9Cy/jhl+H3mgVkZ1Fmk4Gnw4Nvob1Vxxc8bWzzppDCu2gZWVS paz97341YghYUdx3rknU8cat8J+sYeEx26b4s5Dvj9o9WOpQBIRMfzBQ3/nV8hK9 imlgNCHMaBYvwKM0/yn+7Jm/+JU+STmhexL0dBkja1LgfbGWcNRQeuXh881cU1WN Am75VVTGrpU9FPN8IqIc =bmFg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----