As briefly discussed on IRC last week, the portlint warning when MASTER_SITES only has one entry is not really a good one. A single entry is not bad, especially if it's an alias for a mirror network. Countless ports would return "looks fine" by portlint if not for this check. Can we re-evaluate the value of this warning, if if confirmed that it's not something that should be checked, remove it?
Hi Joe, What do you think? Are you looking for a patch? How do we move this PR along?
Sorry, I think this feel through the cracks on my last portlint push. We do have whitelists for known CDNs, so I'd prefer not to just whitewash all single-MASTER_SITE ports. Are there any known aliases that are missing from the whitelist?
I don't know that. My position is that the rule is bad and should be unconditionally removed, and that opinion is shared. The existence of aliases are one reason it's shared, but not the only reason. Now, I don't know that it's a majority opinion or not. I also don't know if there was some kind of equivalent vote down to add the rule either. Maybe someone thought it was a great idea and added it without asking anyone, I don't know. So I'm unclear how to proceed. It seems pretty unpopular when I brought the topic up on IRC, which prompted me to write this bug report.
I'll take it to the people. If the consensus is to kill it, it shall be killed.
Fixed in 2.15.3.