[arch-general] "$startdir/src", "$startdir/pkg" and "|| return 1" in official packages

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:07:30 +0200
> Lukas Fleischer <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
>
>
>> > Anyway, whats the rush?  They will change eventually.  There should
>> > be no (or very few) $startdir/{src,pkg} in [core].
>>
>> As I already said at the beginning:
>>
>> > Although this isn't really significant... I was just curious :)
>>
>> Just thought that might be an easy way to clean up and unify packages
>> a bit.
>
> If a fix can be applied on all packages at once, that seems more
> efficient and less error-prone to me.  But I'm not a packager, so do
> what you want :)

I wouldn't object to doing this to everything in trunk/, but we
shouldn't push those changes out to the repos/ unless the package
actually gets rebuilt. Those should reflect the current state of the
package as much as possible.

-Dan