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  • rules-needs-root: yes (Was: popularity-contest: support for XB-Popcon-R

    From Andreas Tille@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 5 11:40:01 2022
    Hi,

    Am Wed, May 04, 2022 at 07:23:43PM +0200 schrieb [email protected]:
    If there's a growing list of boolean control fields, isn't it the
    indication that some sort of tagging system might make more sense?

    Instead of three lines:

    XB-Popcon-Reports: no
    Rules-Requires-Root: yes
    Pants-Need-Washing: yes

    The same package could use a single line:

    Tags: no-popcon-reports, rules-needs-root, pants-need-washing

    ACK.

    (aside: by default rules doesn't need root... that would make one not- very-useful line less in so many packages!)

    I'd like to stress this! If "rules-needs-root: no" would be default
    the majority of packages could be build. So why not making this the
    default and just specify
    rules-needs-root: yes
    if needed?

    Some of our tools might provide easy queries to the feature:

    $ apt-cache has-tag rules-needs-root my-beautiful-package

    $ apt-cache list-tags my-beautiful-package

    Makes sense.

    Kind regards
    Andreas.

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  • From Andrey Rahmatullin@21:1/5 to Andreas Tille on Thu May 5 12:00:02 2022
    On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 11:31:37AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
    If there's a growing list of boolean control fields, isn't it the indication that some sort of tagging system might make more sense?

    Instead of three lines:

    XB-Popcon-Reports: no
    Rules-Requires-Root: yes
    Pants-Need-Washing: yes

    The same package could use a single line:

    Tags: no-popcon-reports, rules-needs-root, pants-need-washing

    ACK.

    (aside: by default rules doesn't need root... that would make one not- very-useful line less in so many packages!)

    I'd like to stress this! If "rules-needs-root: no" would be default
    the majority of packages could be build. So why not making this the
    default and just specify
    rules-needs-root: yes
    if needed?
    First, strictly speaking it's not boolean, at least until #975637 is implemented.
    Second, changing the default is a breaking change. Is there any statistics
    how many of the packages not already having a Rules-Requires-Root field
    (which are a half of them according to trends.d.n) are working fine with Rules-Requires-Root: no?
    Also note that "yes" doesn't exist, the correct value for the current
    default is "binary-targets".

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    WBR, wRAR

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