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bug#31319: ghc-case-insensitive: Duplicate 'inputs' field.
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#31319: ghc-case-insensitive: Duplicate 'inputs' field. |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:05:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello Mark,
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> It's true that it wouldn't change anything to simply remove those
> ignored duplicate field initializers. However, I thought it would be
> better to give people familiar with these packages an opportunity to
> investigate. Someone may have had a good reason for adding those
> inputs, even if they are not strictly needed for a successful build.
>
> Of course, at some point we should timeout on this. I would advocate
> commenting out the redundant duplicates instead of simply deleting them,
> along with a FIXME comment asking someone to investigate. We could also
> look in the commit history to find out who added those redundant inputs,
> and ask them directly.
>
> If you're impatient to get the duplicate field detection patch committed
> soon, I could implement these "timeout" measures in the next couple of
> days.
I think we should go ahead now and mechanically fix packages with
duplicate fields, and apply the duplicate detection patch.
Would you like to do that?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- bug#31319: ghc-case-insensitive: Duplicate 'inputs' field.,
Ludovic Courtès <=