[csw-maintainers] [policy] Re: feature patching, and naming

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 08.02.2011 um 14:49 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Tue Feb 08 02:10:53 -0500 2011:
>> - Lets remove i/s as it is good to always release a bundle. The i386
>>  only was used in the past if someone made a manual mistake during
>>  packaging and wanted to respin i386 only. This is IMHO generally
>>  bad. If an error occurs all packages should be
>>  rebuild. Introducing extra complexity to allow for manual patching
>>  is not a good idea. We should focus on full automation and the
>>  flag is useless for this.
> 
> I thought these flags were used when a package wouldn't build on one
> platform or the other for some reason...?

Nope.

> If it has only been used as
> you indicate above, then I agree that it's not a good choice.

Ok, so let's remove "i" and "s".

>> - If the "p" flag is present there should be checkpkg-check that
>>  /opt/csw/share/doc/<catalogname>/README.CSW is present.
> 
> Agreed.


Best regards

  -- Dago