Please review the following news item. I would prefer committing it as soon as I get an ACK from all the relevant parties since the issue is hitting users pretty hard.
Title: python-exec package move Author: Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2013-xx-xx Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: dev-python/python-exec Due to the recent issues which caused dev-python/python-exec:0 being removed prematurely [1], we had to perform an urgent package move. Since we could not use the automatic updates support in portage, users will notice two python-exec packages and possibly blockers. Currently, dev-lang/python-exec is the real package that contains python-exec and that will be used in the future. dev-python/python-exec is kept for compatibility with dependencies in already-installed packages. In the most favorable scenario, the package will be upgraded correctly on your next world update. However, you need to make sure to pass the '--deep' (-D) and '--update' (-u) options to emerge. If you don't want to perform a complete world update, you may as well manually upgrade dev-python/python-exec: emerge -1 dev-python/python-exec This will cause portage to update both python-exec packages and resolve the blockers properly. Please note that if you applied any kind of package-specific modifications to dev-python/python-exec (such as applying keywords through 'package.accept_keywords'), you will need to copy them to dev-lang/python-exec as well. If you applied keywords to dev-python/python-exec in order to unmask Python 3.3 on a stable system, please consider removing the keywords and reading our wiki page that explains how to properly unmask USE flags [2]. We apologize for all the inconveniences. [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489440 [2]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Python/PYTHON_TARGETS#Unmasking_non-stable_implementation_on_a_stable_system -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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