Re: policy request: 'make uninstall' should work

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Thank you, Andrew. I will file the appropriate bug reports. 

As a maintainer of the GARNOME project, I find 'make uninstall' to be a
necessary feature when exercising updates. Installing a later version of
an application on top of an earlier installed version is just asking for
trouble.


-Joseph

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On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 19:34 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Is that a polite way of saying that it is a policy that 'make uninstall'
> > should work in order for an app to be hosted by f.g.o?
> >   
> 
> That sort of policy would be fairly unenforcable. The point of 
> ftp.gnome.org is to distribute components of the GNOME suite - although 
> we do try to enforce quality assurance on applications that are part of 
> GNOME, it's not done by blanket conditions that prevent a tarball upload 
> if they're not met.
> 
> If an application does not support "make uninstall" it's a bug. Just 
> like if it crashes on Ubuntu systems, or doesn't translate it's custom 
> text to different languages. The difference is that it gets tested less 
> often and by fewer people.
> 
> So if you see an application doing this, file a bug - and the maintainer 
> will probably try to fix it.
> 
> --
> Andrew
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