-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 06/11/13 12:56 PM, yac wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:48:54 +0100 Alexis Ballier > <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:15 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >>> However, it's been a long-standing general practise that if >>> there are no deps in the tree older than what is necessary for >>> a package, that package doesn't need to have a minimum version >>> on the dependency atom. As such, issues similar to this are >>> probably lying in wait all other the place in the tree. >> >> this is a common misconception: ebuilds must have min. deps >> matching their requirements (exactly because of this problem) >> >> it can be fixed on the user side by 'emerge -uDN world' meanwhile >> but this doesn't mean the ebuild doesn't have a bug, even if >> minor >> >> Alexis. > > When I started contributing via sunrise, I've been adding the > minimal versions of dependencies as declared by upstream but I met > with very strict enforcement of the policy to not specify minimal > version if all the ones in current tree satisfies. > > Is it documented somewhere or is it just unwritten consensus? > > What I see is only Ebuild Policy [1e] which doesn't deal with > this. > > .. [1e] > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 > > I searched as well, and couldn't find anything documented one way or the other, either. I concluded that it's unwritten consensus.
That's the main reason I wanted to start this discussion -- to effectively start documenting it and get dev's all on the same page. To be honest I think it should be policy or at least a written-down guideline, that dev's should do this within reason -- if an older-than-minimum version of something has been in the tree within the past year. Gone for more than a year should be safe, I expect. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlJ6hKMACgkQ2ugaI38ACPB8RwD/aYX0JSAeb1xsWVejdf65jPVP QSIYlCp5v/gdYw88kdMA/22f9UHoBep+iwJq5uYeHLmJFMRYRELnihBhNJkzM5rE =3xf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
