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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:40:04 -0800
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r401299 - head/security/openssh-portable/files
Message-ID:  <5643FC04.4020001@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20151112021225.GB43902@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201511112121.tABLLjO6051679@repo.freebsd.org> <20151112021225.GB43902@FreeBSD.org>

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On 11/11/15 6:12 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:21:45PM +0000, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> New Revision: 401299
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/401299
>>
>> Log:
>>   Make portlint stop spamming me.  It's gotten quite silly.
> 
> I hope this is a temporary measure, even though portlint(1) can indeed
> get annoying at times.  That said, I still don't see the problem with
> simply ignoring warnings that do not apply in certain particular case.
> 
>>   WARN: /root/svn/ports/security/openssh-portable/files/patch-auth.c:
>>   patch was not generated using ``make makepatch''.  It is recommended
>>   to use ``make makepatch'' when you need to [re-]generate a patch to
>>   ensure proper patch format.
> 
> As John had said on IRC, this helps to get consistent patches, because
> prople rarely think about these little details ("repo churn? who cares
> about it") and portlint(1) warning gives them simple and straight course
> of action.  Yet it's true that the check could probably be made somewhat
> smarter than simple grepping for "UTC".
> 
> TL;DR: instead of adding noise to the patches, it's better to improve
> portlint(1).  Or learn how to ignore its warnings. ;-)
> 

We should just ignore portlint at our own discretion since it grows
stupid warnings like this? Mission accomplished?



-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery



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