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Re: missing patch comments should not be classified as an error
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:11:22AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> >That is... not really a constructive attitude. If nothing else, please
> >at least carry a local patch instead of not updating -- pkglint has
> >been getting improved lately (for a change) and with any luck this
> >will continue.
>
> This is a bad change.
Others aren't. See PR 46570.
> You said nobody would agree - basically
> saying it wasn't worth discussing further which I find
> "unconstructive".
Well, so far nobody has...
> >(Also, what's the difference? As far as I can tell, when you run
> >pkglint it just spews notices at you, and while some of them are
> >tagged "error", any further consequences are up to the operator...)
>
> If you actually believed that, you wouldn't have supported the
> classification change of warning to error. Both spew notices
> leaving further consequences to operator, so a classification
> change would therefore have no benefit.
I didn't say I supported it, I said there wasn't any reason to revert
it.
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David A. Holland
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