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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Recent Prometheus bugs in php-pear are caused by missing scripts
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 21:21:51 +0200

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:46:02PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
>
> >
> > Here's the catch: the pear_mk script is plain broken, it generates
> > broken spells.
> > a) it doesn't create a BUILD file, which is required (containing 'true')
> > b) it doesn't create or update the HISTORY file
> >
> > This means all spells created with this script will be broken.
>
> True. I didn't catch it because I "randomly" selected for testing only
> spells
> that had BUILD created by an earlier version of pear_mk. It wasn't me
> who broke
> it though :-):
> http://www.smee.org:8080/@md=d&cd=//sgl/grimoires/devel/php-pear/&cdf=//sgl/grimoires/devel/php-pear/pear_mk&c=RQ0@//sgl/grimoires/devel/php-pear/pear_mk?ac=19&rev1=2&rev2=3
> Also, it was never meant to create or update a HISTORY file. Too much
> trouble.
> I'll fix the BUILD creation tonight if nobody beats me to it.

Thanks.

HISTORY creation/updating is required though, HISTORY is _not_ an
optional file in spells. It's really not hard to create/update
automatically.

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