Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:22:41 +0100 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: Python 3 is a new major version of Python and is intentionally incompatible with Python 2. Many external modules have not been ported yet to Python 3, so currently Python 3.1 should not be set as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:52:50 +0200 Theo Chatzimichos tampak...@gentoo.org wrote: I'll give three days max for the suggestions here etc, and then I'll proceed in creating the news item. So I guess it will be committed in a week max. Thanks Feel free to submit some documentation patches now

Re: [gentoo-dev] Add NGINX_MODULES to USE_EXPAND

2010-03-05 Thread Benedikt Böhm
Hi Tiziano, i already implemented it in my overlay too, but it seems you have done more DEPEND research ;-) at first i had NGINX_MODULES with stuff like http_rewrite and mail_pop3 in my ebuild. then i found an ebuild on bugzilla which just used rewrite and pop3 not caring about the http or mail

[gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan
Ben de Groot posted on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:56:46 +0100 as excerpted: Personally I am recommending people to locally mask python-3*. I think we should consider to add it to our package.mask, unless we can find some other solution. I am not against it being marked stable, but I am against

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 09:25, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: So . . . why the heck are you stabilizing it? Because 'stable' denotes that it works as intended, that it can be installed easily, etc. All of these are true now for python3. There are applications being written for it. We

[gentoo-dev] Re: Moving packages to dev-vcs

2010-03-05 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Serkan Kaba ser...@gentoo.org: I'm hitting a repoman failure repoman: dev-vcs is not an official category. Skipping QA checks in this directory. Please ensure that you add dev-vcs to /home/firari/Desktop/çalışma/gentoo/gentoo-x86/profiles/categories if it is a new category.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:10:00 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: Because 'stable' denotes that it works as intended, that it can be installed easily, etc. All of these are true now for python3. There are applications being written for it. We want to package those too. I'm fine with

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI =2

2010-03-05 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
ons 2010-03-03 klockan 17:46 +0200 skrev Petteri Räty: On 03/03/2010 02:47 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0100 Tomáa Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Removing eclass functions like this is not allowed by current policy. If you want to do it, you should discuss

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Python 3 is a new major version of Python and is intentionally incompatible with Python 2. Many external modules have not been ported yet to Python 3, so currently Python 3.1 should not be set as main active version of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/05/2010 01:41 AM, Joshua Saddler wrote: If it's stable, then users get it by default, assuming they run the stable tree. They install a recent stage3, build their system, run emerge -uD world. Bam, a useless version of Python is now installed. Nothing on their systems will use it, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:56:23 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: No one has said yet why this is. So . . . direct question, gimme a direct answer: why? Because in my opinion stable means that the people who package this are stating that hey, we did some testing with this, it works

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:14, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Aaaand none of my packages that are installed want to use it. That's what I'm sayin'. Maybe if I ran ~arch they'd ask for Python 3.x, but I run stable, so *nothing* wants to use it. Every other stable user is in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Friday 05 of March 2010 11:22:18 Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: I *am* a stable user, and I do want to install python3 (without having to override keywords -- because my packager, the gentoo python team, says it works!). I recognize the cruft problem, but I don't think keeping things in unstable

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: Now on more serious note, ideally python could be treated just like any other non-leaf package (in dependency tree), just like library. In such case it's completely reasonable to stabilize the newest version of such 'library', especially when

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 March 2010 12:24, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: It won't be pulled in by sys-apps/portage dependencies which look like this:  || ( dev-lang/python:2.8 dev-lang/python:2.7 dev-lang/python:2.6 =dev-lang/python-3 ) If you already have python:2.6 installed then it will not pull in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 March 2010 09:28, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Feel free to submit some documentation patches now that all our docs are #...@ed. Thanks. No need for the drama, my friend. A couple of more choices in profiles does not fuck up all our docs. Some clarification will need to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 March 2010 04:18, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Is there not a third, maybe obvious, solution to circular dependencies on initial install? 3.  Include one or both of the packages in the stage tarball. None of the packages involved (gtk+, cups and poppler) is in any shape or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 4 March 2010 19:17, Victor Ostorga vosto...@gentoo.org wrote: 0.8.5 was released on february 23, 2010 and the patch at bug 255453 seems to work fine. Please don't remove one of the greatest open source games. So step up and maintain it! Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Moving packages to dev-vcs

2010-03-05 Thread Serkan Kaba
repoman was referencing the main tree for that (or maybe the overlays additionally) and the issue was fixed when I syced. 2010/3/5 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org: Hi, Serkan Kaba ser...@gentoo.org: I'm hitting a repoman failure repoman: dev-vcs is not an official category.  

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Friday 05 March 2010 14:57:32 Ben de Groot wrote: On 5 March 2010 09:28, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Feel free to submit some documentation patches now that all our docs are #...@ed. Thanks. No need for the drama, my friend. A couple of more choices in profiles does not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

2010-03-05 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 05 March 2010 15:17:06 Ben de Groot wrote: On 4 March 2010 19:17, Victor Ostorga vosto...@gentoo.org wrote: 0.8.5 was released on february 23, 2010 and the patch at bug 255453 seems to work fine. Please don't remove one of the greatest open source games. So step up and maintain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 March 2010 15:22, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday 05 March 2010 15:17:06 Ben de Groot wrote: So step up and maintain it! games herd already maintains that package . At least this is what  I see on metadata.xml Nominally, yes. But if a package has open QA and

[gentoo-dev] Maintainership of sci-misc/boinc

2010-03-05 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi fellows, as I am no longer using boinc myself I am going to step back from its maintainership. Since it is not exactly easy package I ask for some dev who is using it and willing to play with it. (I can give you my tarball creation script at least

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

2010-03-05 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 05 March 2010 17:06:21 Ben de Groot wrote: On 5 March 2010 15:22, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Friday 05 March 2010 15:17:06 Ben de Groot wrote: So step up and maintain it! games herd already maintains that package . At least this is what I see on

[gentoo-dev] VCS tools in need for a maintainer

2010-03-05 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hello! All of these tools had maintainer-needed in metadata.xml when I checked yesterday: dev-util/aegis dev-util/archway dev-util/cvsspam dev-util/guilt dev-util/stgit dev-util/svk dev-util/svnmailer If anyone feels like adopting one or two of these: properly moving them over to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-05 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2010.03.04 02:17, Dale wrote: [snip] Let just think of it this way. I have to reinstall say from a dead hard drive. I have copies of my make.conf and world file. I install my new drive, download the tarball and unpack it. I copy over make.conf and world. Naturally cups will be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: games-fps/openarena

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 March 2010 16:23, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: I assume that only members of QA can actually step up and fix the problem. Otherwise the games heard will complain that random devs are touching their packages. I just assume that but I am not willing to step into their

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving packages to dev-vcs

2010-03-05 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:08:06 +0100 Sebastian Pipping sp...@gentoo.org wrote: 4. Notify = - Report back problems with this process - Mail fellow maintainers of dev-util/${PN} about the move - If ${PN} is a big one (Subversion, Git, you know the list) - Update documentation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving packages to dev-vcs

2010-03-05 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/05/10 18:10, Jeroen Roovers wrote: 4. Notify = [..] This step should probably include correcting all open bug reports' Summaries to point to the new category, so that CAT/PN can be found using the simple search interface. Good catch. Thanks for fixing those on monotone (and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Alistair Bush
On 5 March 2010 12:24, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: It won't be pulled in by sys-apps/portage dependencies which look like this: || ( dev-lang/python:2.8 dev-lang/python:2.7 dev-lang/python:2.6 =dev-lang/python-3 ) If you already have python:2.6 installed then it will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:46:50PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: On Friday 05 March 2010 14:57:32 Ben de Groot wrote: On 5 March 2010 09:28, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Feel free to submit some documentation patches now that all our docs are #...@ed. Thanks. No need

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-05 Thread Dawid Węgliński
On Friday 05 March 2010 17:12:23 Roy Bamford wrote: That's not a new install as per the handbook. Neither are you a new user as you have a premade make.conf and world file and some experience with Gentoo. Put yourself in the place of a brand new Gentoo user doing his/her first install.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-05 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 05-03-2010 a las 19:03 +0100, Dawid Węgliński escribió: On Friday 05 March 2010 17:12:23 Roy Bamford wrote: That's not a new install as per the handbook. Neither are you a new user as you have a premade make.conf and world file and some experience with Gentoo. Put yourself

[gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI =2

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan
Peter Hjalmarsson posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:54:23 +0100 as excerpted: I have start to question why should we care about overlays more then the actual portage tree? Take for example the kernel or Xorg. They give themselves a period of time to clean up their own code (i.e.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 01 March 2010 00:30:01 Mike Frysinger wrote: thought i disabled this ... oh well, fixed now -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 04 March 2010 11:08:52 Samuli Suominen wrote: Attached you can find the news item for up coming profile cleanup. do profiles really need to be culled this often ? we used to let the tail run longer and no one complained. it's easier to upgrade an old system when the current

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] making autotools.eclass depends flexible

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
sometimes i have optional patches (ignoring the patches should always be applied) where autotools should be run. always inheriting autotools is currently annoying because it always adds the related dependencies. USE based inherits are obviously out. so unless there's some burgeoning standard

[gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan
Zeerak Mustafa Waseem posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:59:39 +0100 as excerpted: How about the Handbook? As far as I remember you're asked to choose a profile :-) I can file a bug it needs to be done :-) Just let me know That's part 1 (installing), chapter 6 (base system), section 6.b.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Friday 05 March 2010 21:01:09 Duncan wrote: Zeerak Mustafa Waseem posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:59:39 +0100 as excerpted: How about the Handbook? As far as I remember you're asked to choose a profile :-) I can file a bug it needs to be done :-) Just let me know That's part 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 05 March 2010 07:57:32 Ben de Groot wrote: On 5 March 2010 09:28, Joshua Saddler nightmo...@gentoo.org wrote: Feel free to submit some documentation patches now that all our docs are #...@ed. Thanks. No need for the drama, my friend. A couple of more choices in profiles does not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI =2

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 03:47:37 Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 3.3.2010 08:52, Ryan Hill napsal(a): On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:52:55 +0200 Petteri Räty wrote: On 03/02/2010 08:27 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: Members of Gentoo Python Project have agreed to deprecate the following

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches news item for review

2010-03-05 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 07:01:09PM +, Duncan wrote: Zeerak Mustafa Waseem posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:59:39 +0100 as excerpted: How about the Handbook? As far as I remember you're asked to choose a profile :-) I can file a bug it needs to be done :-) Just let me know That's part 1

[gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:24:29 -0800 as excerpted: On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: Now on more serious note, ideally python could be treated just like any other non-leaf package (in dependency tree), just like library. In such case it's completely reasonable to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Andy Kittner
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:23:03AM +1300, Alistair Bush wrote: [...] Guys you should remember that we like to call gentoo a metadistribution [1]. Our users should be taking an active role in the maintenance of the own distro [...] As a user I have to thank you very much for this statement.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-05 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: El vie, 05-03-2010 a las 19:03 +0100, Dawid Węgliński escribió: On Friday 05 March 2010 17:12:23 Roy Bamford wrote: That's not a new install as per the handbook. Neither are you a new user as you have a premade

[gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI =2

2010-03-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:12:36 +0200 Petteri Räty betelge...@gentoo.org wrote: Because there is so little benefit from removing old functions. What is so bad about having them grouped at the bottom of the file inside a deprecated section? Because then people use them. Don't ask me why. I have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving packages to dev-vcs

2010-03-05 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/04/10 23:11, Brian Harring wrote: Random sidenote, anyone looked at using an alternate vcs to do the work, then proxy it back? Specifically thinking of workflow like svk (or in this case hg cvs, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Using_Mercurial_locally_with_CVS ). The reason I ask is that

[gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:37:28 +0100 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 5 March 2010 12:24, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: It won't be pulled in by sys-apps/portage dependencies which look like this:  || ( dev-lang/python:2.8 dev-lang/python:2.7 dev-lang/python:2.6

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-05 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Monday 01 of March 2010 22:24:56 Ben de Groot wrote: For some reason beyond my understanding, we have the cups useflag enabled by default in profiles. This has started to generate circular dependencies, at least for desktop profile users (gtk - cups - poppler - gtk). I propose we no longer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI =2

2010-03-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 05 March 2010 15:14:33 Ryan Hill wrote: On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:12:36 +0200 Petteri Räty wrote: Because there is so little benefit from removing old functions. What is so bad about having them grouped at the bottom of the file inside a deprecated section? Because then people use

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps

2010-03-05 Thread Ben de Groot
On 5 March 2010 21:51, Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote: poppler[utils] are just pdfto*sth converters, and they're most likely pure runtime depedencies for net-print/cups. Could someone from printing herd verify? If so, then it's sufficient to fix cups dependencies (move

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles

2010-03-05 Thread Ed W
On 05/03/2010 18:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 11:08:52 Samuli Suominen wrote: Attached you can find the news item for up coming profile cleanup. do profiles really need to be culled this often ? we used to let the tail run longer and no one complained. it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Python 3.1: Stabilization and news item

2010-03-05 Thread Zac Medico
On 03/05/2010 11:26 AM, Duncan wrote: Zac Medico posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:24:29 -0800 as excerpted: On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: Now on more serious note, ideally python could be treated just like any other non-leaf package (in dependency tree), just like library. In

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles

2010-03-05 Thread Duncan
Ed W posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:33:43 + as excerpted: I think I have mostly upgraded my machines, but I completely agree - I sometimes let some old virtual machines sit unbooted for a year and then suddenly want to use them and bring them up to date and occasionally this can be a right

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI =2

2010-03-05 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/05/2010 10:14 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: Because then people use them. Don't ask me why. I have things I deprecated over two years ago still being used by a dozen ebuilds bumped within the last three months. You should be familiar with this behaviour wrt. built_with_use. So, when I'm

[gentoo-dev] [Last Rites] net-p2p/pysoulseek

2010-03-05 Thread Ryan Hill
# Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org (05 March 2010) # No release since 2004, succeeded by nicotine+ # Removal April 5, 2010 - bug #307971 net-p2p/pysoulseek -- fonts,by design, by neglect gcc-porting, for a fact or just for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving packages to dev-vcs

2010-03-05 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/05/2010 07:18 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 03/05/10 18:10, Jeroen Roovers wrote: 4. Notify = [..] This step should probably include correcting all open bug reports' Summaries to point to the new category, so that CAT/PN can be found using the simple search interface.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] making autotools.eclass depends flexible

2010-03-05 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/05/2010 08:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: sometimes i have optional patches (ignoring the patches should always be applied) where autotools should be run. always inheriting autotools is currently annoying because it always adds the related dependencies. USE based inherits are obviously

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] VCS used for development of portage

2010-03-05 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 03/05/10 04:58, Zac Medico wrote: http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=portage.git;a=summary NOTE: Do not use it for development, yet - it's a demo! It looks very nice to me. I noticed that it preserved continuity when branches got moved around, so the history seems like it will be fully

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] VCS used for development of portage

2010-03-05 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:33:14PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: I don't feel like proposing anything on that matter at the moment. With that said: what do you and Robin think? Here's a related question. Did the previous CVS - SVN question generate the svn:ignore files from .cvsignore, or