Bug 569056

Summary:	app-editors/vim - please remove EWARN about English word lists
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Walter Dnes <waltdnes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Vim Maintainers <vim>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Walter Dnes 2015-12-21 20:40:31 UTC

I check /var/portage/elog for warnings after doing updates. This should be reserved for important stuff. I could see an ewarn for a few months after removing a feature, but this ewarn has been in vim ebuilds for *OVER TWO YEARS*. No, I am not exaggerating. See...

https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-editors/vim/vim-7.4.131.ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.1&view=markup

dated Mon Dec 16 09:57:57 2013 UTC (2 years ago). Note lines 348+349

348 	ewarn "Note that the English word lists are no longer installed by"
349 	ewarn "default."

After a few months, these messages contribute nothing, and only clutter up /var/portage/elog and waste peoples' time reading about an ancient change. While we're at it, maybe there should be a general policy about how long these ewarns persist in all ebuilds.

Comment 1 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2016-01-14 16:52:42 UTC

Dropped in 7.4.1089.