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Bug 209665 - app-portage/eclass-manpages states @DESCRIPTION as optional but doesn't create manpage if @DESCRIPTION is missing
Summary: app-portage/eclass-manpages states @DESCRIPTION as optional but doesn't creat...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: SpanKY
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Reported: 2008-02-11 15:48 UTC by mren
Modified: 2008-02-19 05:14 UTC (History)
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Description mren 2008-02-11 15:48:57 UTC 
In eclass-to-manpage.awk it's stated:
# @DESCRIPTION:
# <optional; long description>

But w/ a missing @DESCRIPTION it skips the creation of that manpage:
/usr/portage/eclass/python.eclass:11:error: python.eclass: no @DESCRIPTION found

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-11 15:50:42 UTC 
python.eclass is not eclass-manpages compatible at all. If you are annoyed by the useless noise, see Bug 190981, I gave up.
Comment 2 mren 2008-02-11 17:24:52 UTC 
The noise doesn't matter to me (in that case). It's just that I'm writing patches for eclasses and I stumbled upon the "problem" that @DESCRIPTION in @ECLASS-context seems not to be optional. The python.eclass was just the one I wrote the patch for as I noticed the problem.
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-11 17:29:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> The python.eclass was just the one I wrote the patch for as I noticed the problem.

Meh... sorry; that was indeed a bad example. :)