Wednesday 01 August 2007, Jason Chu wrote: | On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:14:54PM +0200, Damir Perisa wrote: | > Wednesday 01 August 2007, Simo Leone wrote: | > | Why run checkpkg and all that garbage every | > | time, keep it simple and record the ones you found so whoever | > | upgrades it next time will have a head start and know what | > | they're getting themselves into. | > | > exactly my point - i do not want to be forced to run checkpkg if | > i as a human being feel i do not want to for a certain update | > i'm _sure_ it is ok. | | I'm glad that you feel it in your very soul. But a computer will | be able to tell you for sure, it isn't human. right you are... i just fear the point where human overriding of something is not longer possible because of the rightness of something... | While I understand your feelings, if the check wasn't as invasive | as the current checkpkg (like, run on the server) wouldn't it be | better to verify everything and then make exceptions for the cases | you get all touchy feely about? sure, absolutely! checkpkg as it is now i don't like because my internet connection is not the fastest and my cpu almost all the time used (therefore also 66°C most of the times)... that's why i compare FILELISTs instead of running checkpkg for cases i'm not sure about so-name changes... my argument is purely egoistic and out of my comfort. would i be having a high-speed internet and a up-to-date CPU (actually my new laptop that should come every day will have enough CPU power), i wouldn't mind rebuilding old versions to compare so-names... | > actually... the best way to check for so-name changes is the | > contact with the developement leader of a project. that's how i | > figure out if a pkg triggers rebuildings to other pkgs in most | > cases. | | If they get back to you in a reasonable amount of time they usually do... they feel all too excited and like to get feedback anyway. | and | remember every library that's changed between one version and | another... they should know.... if not, maybe they should run checkpkg before releasing soemthing they do not know what it is :) | They're also human. all of them? :-) lol! - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><