make force-tag gone

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Thu Sep 11 20:49:54 UTC 2008


Josh Boyer wrote:
> Yes.  It was decided to leave the removal, and to also remove TAG_OPTS=-F.
> The decision was not unanimous.  I believe the meeting summary will have
> links to the relevant discussion.

Well there's no question we can all live without force-tag :-), it's 
merely a minor annoyance that packagers will have to deal with.

But I'm really bothered by the message this is sending. Infrastructure 
takes away a tool that was useful and popular amongst packagers, with NO 
effort to provide an alternative or at least some workaround for failed 
builds retagging. This is not cool. I would like to kindly request that 
infrastructure makes some effort to come up with a solution (i.e a 
reasonably short term one, not just "migrate to new SCM").

-denis




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