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| author |   Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2022-11-08 04:31:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2022-11-10 07:17:02 +0000 |
| commit | 2b94b64306230dc3595150c5bba87ec0763d93a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ca7c9fbc47f77cb7bc49041da5be208ce6144a5 /general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml | |
| parent | ebuild-writing/eapi: Replace interactive by live in example (diff) | |
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general-concepts/ebuild-revisions: note which build-time fixes need a new revision
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml b/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml index fc5ba7c..b2fa57f 100644 --- a/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml +++ b/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml @@ -85,7 +85,11 @@ of thumb could be used as a guideline: <li> adding a patch to fix a build-time issue that prevented users from building the package (since it does not affect users who already - managed to build it), + managed to build it) unless: it affected runtime behaviour in some way + (e.g. <c>-Wformat</c> or <c>-Wimplicit-function-declaration</c> fixes); + the package may have been miscompiled, or the change is substantial + (if adding a huge patch to fix a problem, the chances of an unexpected + issue being introduced by it are larger). </li> <li>adding a trivial documentation fix,</li> <li> |