Re: [platform-releng-dev] Heads up: org.eclipse.compare pom in needs upd

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
on 07/02/2013 02:51:44 PM:
> IMHO, for I-builds, we should expect/require that there be no POM
> Update errors and if there is, we should re-spin to fix them. (not
> sure we need to panic over it this week ... but ... in general, I
> think that should be the policy). 

Can you explain why a rebuild helps? Since POM files
are fixed automatically during the build, a rebuild with fixed POM files
would produce exactly the same output as the original build, right? I agree
we need to fix POM errors, but I'm not convinced they deserve a respin.

John