Subject: Re: [bug#29891] [PATCH] gnu: java-classpathx-servletapi: Update to 3.0-r1244.

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:04:42 +0100

Gábor,

Gábor Boskovits wrote on 09/01/18 at 11:56:
> Reworded commit message.

Sorry to be a drive-by nit-picker, but this commit message is still much
longer than needed:

> 2018-01-09 11:55 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits <[email-masked]
> <mailto:[email-masked]>>:
> 
>     * gnu/packages/java.scm (java-classpathx-servletapi): Update to
>     3.0-r1244.
>     [source]: Change to svn-fetch from upstream. (This version is only
>     available from there)

That parenthesis should be far more useful to future generations as a
comment in the code.

>     [arguments]: Switch to a java8 compiler, remove comment about not
>     working with java8,

The first half implies the second: I'd not mention the comment.

>     add phase chdir to compensate for the different layout of the
>     upstream repository.

Also very verbose (just “Add ‘chdir’ phase.”?) but OK :-)

Kind regards,

T G-R