Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:41:06PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
 > On 4/9/2013 17:36, David Holland wrote:
 > >On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:34:57PM +0400, Aleksej Saushev top-posted:
 > >  >  Please, stop committing this nonsense immediatly!
 > >  >  And revert all the damage you have done so far.
 > >  >    :
 > >  >  >  Log Message:
 > >  >  >  Edited DESCR in the case of:
 > >  >  >   File too long (should be no more than 24 lines).
 > >  >  >   Line too long (should be no more than 80 characters).
 > >  >  >   Trailing empty lines.
 > >  >  >   Trailing white-space.
 > >  >  >  Trucated the long files as best as possible while preserving the 
 > > most info
 > >  >  >  contained in them.
 > >
 > >Truncating DESCR files is not a good thing, please do revert those.
 > 
 > It's already been reverted.
 > Thomas told asau to unrevert them, but he conspicuously didn't.

Yes, well, it isn't done yet; when it is, I'd like to see the DESCRs
not gratuitously truncated.

 > rodent said he kept "most info", so what's the problem?

Because someone (probably upstream) decided that they thought the
package should be described in a particular way; lopping off parts of
that to satisfy an arbitrary and fundamentally inane length limit at
best isn't a good idea.

 > Long DESCR files are not a good thing.

If any of them were >100 lines, then shortening them is probably a
good idea. Otherwise, what's the point?

 > And now you are forcing me
 > to agree with asau: If you aren't going to respect the pkglint
 > rule, then remove it.

There are so many things wrong with pkglint (or that it doesn't
understand) that treating its messages as anything stronger than
mild suggestions is extremely foolish.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost