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Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads. |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:59:54 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:47:09 -0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The string speaks for itself when you display it.
>
> It does not. A host name could be ‘unknown’ or even ‘elided’. In theory it
> could
> be any string.
We could come up with something even less probable.
> In this sense, the Dec. 25 change that introduced the system build name into
> the
> output of report-emacs-bug was a misstep.
No, it isn't. I needed this information many times when examining bug
reports, and I'm not going to give it up. Can I have some minimal
respect from fellow developers, and some minimal credit that I do
things for a reason?
> > It sounds strange to send users to documentation for such a simple issue.
>
> No matter what we do here, we will need documentation that users can refer to
> on
> occasion. Even simple approaches like nil-if-unknown require some
> documentation.
> More-complicated approaches like magic-cookie-if-unknown would require more
> of it.
You are ducking the issue.
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/24
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Philipp Stephani, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/27
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/28
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/29
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/29
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Paul Eggert, 2015/12/29
Re: [PATCH PING] Honor 'SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH' when generating autoloads., Ludovic Courtès, 2015/12/07