-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 25/07/14 11:54, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > MEETING SUMMARY =============== > > Assorted Bugs -------------- Andreas Hüttel has patch for repoman. > It checks that a package does not depend on anything in perl-core > if it is not a virtual package. This patch will be tested and > merged by myself. The related bug is: > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516428>. > > I have a set of patches that drastically alter the behaviour of > autounmask. These behavioural changes are accepted and will go > into portage after we make our next release. The related bug is: > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481578>. > > It was agreed that having --ask prompting the user to read pending > news item is an acceptable degree of interactivity. The related > bug is: <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=517310>. > > News checking can be done when synching Portage. This will be > worked on after the portage-sync branch has been merged. The > related bug is: <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512704>. > > There were no objections to Joakim Tjernlund's fakeroot patches. I > will get in touch with Joakim and have him explain me the > intricacies of the patches and why they are necessary, etc. I will > then test and merge them. The related bug is: > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489016>. > > Michał Gorny wants to make repoman only complain about direct > deprecated inherits. This was OK by everyone. There is no > corresponding bug. > > > New Release ----------- A new release will be made after I have > tested and merged Andreas's patch. I will tag the commit in git, > Brian Dolbec will upload the tarball and bump the ebuild. > > > repoman status -------------- The repoman kludge is being split > into multiple small files with few checks in each, and the check > initialisation and other management left in a big file still. This > is the first round of refactoring -- Brian thinks we will need > three rounds. The second round will be reorganising parts into a > plugin system. > > Minor patches (such as Andreas's) will be committed to both the > refactor branch (repoman), and to the current Portage HEAD. Major > patches will only be merged in the refactor branch. > > Brian is not yet recovered from his surgery, so Tom Wijsman is > presently in charge of the refactor. > > > Dynamic dependencies -------------------- Dynamic dependencies will > be turned off. Michał and myself (and I encourage everyone else > that has the time to join in) will rebuild world without dynamic > dependencies locally on our own work computers, and try to live > without them for a while as to stumble upon the potential problems. > We will continuously document how to fix whatever mess arises. We > might also write some tools to assist migration. > > After a while of testing, an email will be sent to the developer's > mailing list to let them prepare to not being able to rely on > dynamic dependencies tricks. Then, pending some reasonable amount > of time (likely at least 30 days), we roll out a release with > dynamic dependencies disabled. This release will be accompanied by > a NEWS item for users and developers alike. > > New member ---------- I finally trick^Wconvinced Michał to join. > Welcome to the team!
One more thing that I forgot about: The 9999 and 2.2.10 ebuilds will have their EAPI bumped to 5 by Michał. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlPSNIAACgkQRtClrXBQc7XRhwD8DXEBfJpew1RB1lOZJkbdWijr OetJ79LAcHXx0GqinwkA/3PrdO1zb/EYpsCpVpYykxTLtKCGHqdO26j5+15g5mtv =gEMZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
