Re: git: b68bef1f6425 - main - x11-wm/kwinft: unbreak build after 5d998836b36f

From: Fernando_ApesteguĂ­a <fernando.apesteguia_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 14:22:03 UTC
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 1:41 PM Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:58:46AM +0000, Jan Beich wrote:
> >
> >> The branch main has been updated by jbeich:
> >>
> >> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=b68bef1f6425117cd0d0d95626178db4c4fb3073
> >>
> >> commit b68bef1f6425117cd0d0d95626178db4c4fb3073
> >> Author:     Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
> >> AuthorDate: 2021-11-10 09:24:08 +0000
> >> Commit:     Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
> >> CommitDate: 2021-11-10 10:58:09 +0000
> >>
> >>     x11-wm/kwinft: unbreak build after 5d998836b36f
> >>
> >>     input/filters/window_selector.cpp:19:10: fatal error: 'linux/input.h' file not found
> >>      #include <linux/input.h>
> >>               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >>     Pointy hat to:  manu
> >
> > To be honnest I am puzzled about this pointy hat, while manu should have tested the
> > reverse dependencies of mtdev to make sure noone wrongly took its run
> > dependencies as granted as its own build dependencies and fix them upfront,
> > On the otherside, all the ports should be explicit about ALL their direct build
> > dependencies, and not expect another port to provide them.
>
> According to FreshPorts devel/libmtdev has 3 consumers:
>
> - x11/libinput has 22 consumers
> - x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev has 1 consumer
> - x11-toolkits/qt5-gui has 1033 consumers
>
> Testing all qt5-gui consumers locally is challenging. Some of those may
> have consumers of their own.
>
> > Meaning the said ports were buggy in the first place.
>
> It was unexpected/disrupting. And without exp-run it's unknown how many
> more ports may need to be fixed (I only regularly test mine). Besides,
> destabilizing the tree too much degrades the quality of exp-runs that
> maybe ongoing in parallel for unrelated changes.
>
> >
> > This is one of the reason the Pointy hat culture has been removed from the ports
> > land in general in favor or at best only accepting self pointy hatting.
> >
> > So as a community if we could avoid finger pointing at others.
>
> Agree, pointy hats can discourage new contributors, drive away existing
> ones due to exhausting negativity or attract trolls. This was mostly a
> silly/petty attempt to grab (mainly manu's) attention.

In order to do that, we could use the Fixed: field in the commit
template. After all, that is what it is for.
Extra bonus if there is a hook that sends a private mail to the
committer whose commit is being fixed.

Just my 2 cents.