569056 – app-editors/vim - please remove EWARN about English word lists

Bug 569056 - app-editors/vim - please remove EWARN about English word lists

Summary: app-editors/vim - please remove EWARN about English word lists

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Vim Maintainers

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Reported:	2015-12-21 20:40 UTC by Walter Dnes
Modified:	2016-01-14 16:52 UTC (History)
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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.