Bug 344145

Summary:	app-mobilephone/bitpim: unused file in $FILESDIR
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	jalan <jalanpalmer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Mobile Phone Developers (INACTIVE) <mobile-phone>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	QA
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description jalan 2010-11-04 16:50:51 UTC

app-mobilephone/bitpim/files contains the following file that is not used by any of the bitpim ebuilds:

maketarball

Please remove it.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-04 16:57:07 UTC

Upstream site doesn't seem to include a source tarball, only prebuilt Windows/OSX and RPM builds.
This looks like a script to generate a source tarball from subversion, and is used for bumping the package.
Propably not good idea to remove it.

Comment 2 jalan 2010-11-04 17:08:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

Is it normal to store things that are only useful to the maintainers in the portage tree? Is there a better place to put things like this? I'm not suggesting anything--I really don't know.

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-04 18:15:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> 
> Is it normal to store things that are only useful to the maintainers in the
> portage tree? Is there a better place to put things like this? I'm not
> suggesting anything--I really don't know.
> 

Well, actually better place is in the gentoo tree, in patchsets:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/
So I guess this should be moved...