Bug 207774

Summary:	mail-filter/policyd specifies compression for file in /usr/share/doc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark Loeser (RETIRED) <halcy0n>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	169772

Description Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-27 22:38:12 UTC

You shouldn't specify the full path of the file since the user can specify whether to use gzip or bzip2 to compress the files.  Instead refer to where the file can be found.

References for why we should do this can be found at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169772
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/common-mistakes/

Comment 1 Łukasz Damentko (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-11 01:28:28 UTC

Reassigning back to herd since Benjamin has retired as a Gentoo developer (#89719).

Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-16 00:18:40 UTC

Fixed