Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017, 11:19:02 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: > On Monday, 9 October 2017 20:20:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > > I don't really see how you can repeatedly release new versions of > > something without changing the version number, but maybe that's just me... > > No, it isn't just you. What you describe is a classic example of a developer > trying to hide his mistakes - strictly unprofessional. It would not have > been allowed anywhere I've worked. > > I know that volunteers are hard to find, but even so ... > > Good work spotting the trail, by the way.
It's actually simpler than that: ebuilds do not need a revision bump when fixing compilation errors, since the ebuild remains uninstalled [0]. And if you /were/ able to build it, you won't profit from a revbump, either (in fact, people tend to loudly complain about unnecessary rebuilds). So, no, it most likely is /not/ someone trying to hide their mistakes. Never mind that the changes are easy to find in Gentoo's version control history [1], which references bug #633640, which in turn reveals that they were trying to fix a build error, but accidentally caused another in the process. So, yeah, so much hiding going on here! [0] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/ [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/?qt=grep&q=firefox -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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