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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-05-03 18:53:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2015-05-03 18:53:26 +0200 |
| commit | 2a7992696a79c344de41c814a756d5f9f4836f8e (patch) | |
| tree | a5e2f4241bafcb1525536a08620bf41a236b689f | |
| parent | ebuild-writing: use-conditionals: Add more information about the old `use foo... (diff) | |
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Merge remarks about revision bumps from Developer Handbook.
This is taken from proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-ebuild.xml,
section "Ebuild policy", subsection "Versioning and revision bumps".
Permission to reuse the CC-BY-SA-1.0 work under CC-BY-SA-2.0
(or any later version) obtained from author plasmaroo per e-mail
on 2015-04-16.
| -rw-r--r-- | general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml | 4 |
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diff --git a/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml b/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml index 9ddc39f..012745f 100644 --- a/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml @@ -17,12 +17,16 @@ Ebuilds should have their <c>-rX</c> incremented whenever a change is made which will make a substantial difference to what gets installed by the package <d/> by substantial, we generally mean "something for which many users would want to upgrade". This is usually for bugfixes. +For any such revision bump, the new ebuild should be based on the +previous revision to ensure that fixes aren't dropped accidentally. </p> <p> Simple compile fixes do <b>not</b> warrant a revision bump; this is because they do not affect the installed package for users who already managed to compile it. Small documentation fixes are also usually not grounds for a new revision. +In particular, this applies if the package has a substantial compilation +time; developers should use their best judgement in these circumstances. </p> <important> |