[gentoo-dev] Re: Banning modification of pkg-config files (was: [gentoo-project] Re: Call For Agenda Items - 13 May 2014)

2014-05-09 Thread Matti Bickel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/09/2014 04:07 PM, hasufell wrote: I ask the council to vote on banning pkg-config files that would be added or renamed downstream (at least this will prevent new violations). I want to repeat my stance from the linked bug that making this

[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: dev-php/PEAR-File_PDF

2013-11-21 Thread Matti Bickel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 # Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org (21 Nov 2013) # Outdated, beta and abandoned upstream, removal on 20131220 dev-php/PEAR-File_PDF -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

[gentoo-dev] Last-rites: dev-php/DBUnit

2013-11-13 Thread Matti Bickel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 # Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org (13 Nov 2013) # Now included in dev-php/phpunit, removal on 20131213 dev-php/DBUnit -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c

2013-02-03 Thread Matti Bickel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/2013 11:17 AM, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Quoting Pacho Ramos (2013-01-17 20:21:30) # Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org # Still uses depend.php (#449820), upstream dead for ages and # newer versions don't work. Removal in a month.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: www-apps/phpwiki

2012-06-26 Thread Matti Bickel
# Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org (26 Jun 2012) # Dead upstream. Use any other wiki software like ikiwiki. # Removal on 26th Jul 2012 www-apps/phpwiki

[gentoo-dev] Last-rite for dev-php/PEAR-DB_DataObject_FormBuilder

2012-03-18 Thread Matti Bickel
# Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org (18 Mar 2012) # masked for removal in 30 days, ~15 Apr 2012 # unmaintained upstream (bug #396963) dev-php/PEAR-DB_DataObject_FormBuilder

[gentoo-dev] [FYI] php-lib-r1.eclass going to die

2012-01-28 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi folks, I thought I'd throw this out, so nobody is suprised when I start to put qawarns in the eclass: I don't think php-lib-r1.eclass has any value now that we have EAPI4. The only thing it basically does is a) setting RDEPEND=dev-lang/php and b) provide a php_lib_r1_src_install that accepts

[gentoo-dev] Lastrite: dev-php/PEAR-I18N

2012-01-24 Thread Matti Bickel
# Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org (16 Jan 2012) # Now part of dev-lang/php; merge it with USE=intl # Removal in 30 days, bug #396975 dev-php/PEAR-I18N

[gentoo-dev] Relinking fun with libtool

2011-08-16 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi folks, coming back from an extended vacation I found bug #351266[1] still open. The root cause of this install failure seems to be libtool trying to relink php's apache module. I'm not entirely sure what causes this (as my system doesn't relink the library), but more importantly I failed to

[gentoo-dev] FYI: Moving packages from dev-php5 to dev-php

2011-01-28 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi all, this is a quick note that the php team (well, Ole and me) has decided to kill of the dev-php5 category. We think it's confusing and the distinction of which packages go where isn't as clear as it should be. I find myself regularly looking in dev-php instead of dev-php5. As php extensions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions

2011-01-27 Thread Matti Bickel
On 01/27/2011 05:30 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: No, since there's no such thing as an app that's guaranteed to be portable. What about app-doc/php-doc? Yeah, single use case. But I feel stupid requesting keywords for it. It's all text. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions

2011-01-27 Thread Matti Bickel
On 01/27/2011 06:59 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Adding ebuilds with noarch keyword must be preceded with: All ebuilds seeking to have this feature implemented must be discussed on #gentoo-dev mailing list and proven not having portability issues. So instead of opening a bug for all arches, I post

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Stabilisation exceptions

2011-01-27 Thread Matti Bickel
On 01/27/2011 07:42 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Only to gain the ~allarch. When it gains it gets tested by arch member of any team and stabled. Verstanden? :) Yep, I think I did. But what if introduce, say, a non-portable find command into a new revision that breaks on some arches. I'll carry over

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Matti Bickel
On 01/20/2011 01:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: I just wanted to write here a clarification regarding self-produced distfiles, such as patchset tarballs, SCM snapshots and the like. Some people seem under the impression that the correct way to host these is to use mirror://gentoo/ and copy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Matti Bickel
First, thanks for pointing this out. On 01/20/2011 07:51 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: License compliance when distributing binaries; Not sure what you mean: if someone quickpkg's php and needs all the source? Well, they already downloaded them. Better keep them around, since it's *your*

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-20 Thread Matti Bickel
On 01/20/2011 08:42 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: We do distribute part of our packages as binaries already so we have to be compliant with their licenses to begin with. Better doing it with a single sweep than trying to come up with abstruse case-by-case points, no? No. Licenses are not a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sandbox violation?

2011-01-12 Thread Matti Bickel
On 01/12/2011 02:53 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: C: /usr/bin/php-cgi -v -d session.save_path=/tmp OK, this is a masked ebuild but what does this actually mean and how can we fix it? Which version of php is this? All

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: What are || ( ) dependencies?

2010-12-19 Thread Matti Bickel
On 12/18/2010 08:35 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:25:04 + Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: So would anyone be especially opposed to making best leftmost an explicit requirement, enforced by repoman where possible (at least for the = / case)? I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI=4

2010-10-25 Thread Matti Bickel
On 10/25/2010 06:23 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: On 10/25/2010 04:24 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I would like to request that 2 additional features are added to EAPI=4. These features will be needed for further development of python.eclass. 1. Support for . characters in names

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-lang/php/files/eblits: src_configure-v1.eblit src_configure-v2.eblit

2010-10-24 Thread Matti Bickel
On 10/24/2010 02:07 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 10/24/2010 02:48 PM, Matti Bickel (mabi) wrote: -phpconfutils_extension_with pdo-sqlite sqlite 1 /usr +phpconfutils_extension_with pdo-sqlite sqlite3 1 /usr That's a regression (because USE=sqlite3 is deprecated

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per package eclass GLEP

2010-09-26 Thread Matti Bickel
On 09/19/2010 10:49 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Wouldn't it also make sense to have per-category eclasses? This seems much more useful for me. Yes, probably. But it'll be enough getting per-package eclasses in, right now. I'll revisit this when we finally merge dev-php5 and dev-php. If

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per package eclass GLEP

2010-09-26 Thread Matti Bickel
On 09/26/2010 03:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Isn't the amount of work to get per-package eclasses basically the same as the amount of work to get per-(package and category) eclasses? Actually, I don't know. Tell me. I've no clue how much PM implementation effort this will be, yet.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: per package eclass GLEP

2010-09-26 Thread Matti Bickel
On 09/20/2010 12:00 AM, Duncan wrote: Given that no set eapi is taken to be eapi=0, and this is proposed as part of a new eapi, eapi MUST be set before pkg-inherit, if pkg-inherit and thus per-pkg eclasses are to be used at all. The last sentence of the top paragraph (of the two) should

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: per package eclass GLEP

2010-09-20 Thread Matti Bickel
On 09/20/2010 07:30 PM, Alec Warner wrote: Under the new system I can put the code: 1) In a global eclass, any ebuild can likely use it 2) In a per-package eclass, only one package can use it 3) In a pkg eblit, only one package can use it Per package eclasses are pretty much eblits with

[gentoo-dev] RFC: per package eclass GLEP

2010-09-19 Thread Matti Bickel
Title: Per package eclasses Version: Last-Modified: Author: Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: Post-History: Abstract This document proposes a new kind of eclasses, which are specific to a certain package (hence per-package

[gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2010-09-16 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi folks, The fox eclass accumulated a lot of cruft over the years. Specifically, it includes quite a bit of code to support versions loong gone from our tree. The only officially supported versions now are 1.6 and 1.7. Thus, I've edited it a bit. Main points are EAPI2 phase support and a lot

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2010-09-16 Thread Matti Bickel
On 09/16/2010 04:41 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Hey Matti, few quick things. Thanks, all done. FOXCONF is now documented (though not set by default). Updated diff and eclass attached. # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 #

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2010-09-16 Thread Matti Bickel
On 09/16/2010 08:32 PM, Peter Volkov wrote: В Чтв, 16/09/2010 в 16:24 +0200, Matti Bickel пишет: +FOXVER=`get_version_component_range 1-2 ${FOX_PV}` It's better to prefer $() style over ``: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/082 Hmm, I prefer Backticks personally, as I like to conserve

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2010-09-16 Thread Matti Bickel
On 09/16/2010 09:29 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: +if [[ -f ${D}/usr/bin/fox-config ]] ; then +mv ${D}/usr/bin/fox-config ${D}/usr/bin/fox-${FOXVER}-config fi seems like you would want || die here Why? I can't imagine how that could fail. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33

2010-08-05 Thread Matti Bickel
On 08/05/2010 05:27 AM, Brian Harring wrote: If a PM encounters an EAPI it doesn't understand/support, by definition the metadata it tried generating is not usable- the PM doesn't support that new EAPI thus it has zero clue how to generate/store metadata appropriately for that EAPI. I

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33

2010-08-02 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi folks, I've been told that my use of eblits in dev-lang/php is something I should get rid of as soon as possible. Suggested alternative by ferring: use elibs. So here goes: I want to see GLEP33[1] implemented in portage, so I can shift the eblits core and currently global functions into elibs

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33

2010-08-02 Thread Matti Bickel
On 08/02/2010 08:16 PM, David Leverton wrote: On 2 August 2010 12:11, Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:56:08AM +0200, Matti Bickel wrote: Hi folks, I've been told that my use of eblits in dev-lang/php is something I should get rid of as soon as possible

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33

2010-08-02 Thread Matti Bickel
On 08/02/2010 09:51 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday, August 02, 2010 05:56:08 Matti Bickel wrote: I've been told that my use of eblits in dev-lang/php is something I should get rid of as soon as possible. current eblits support isnt going anywhere. so dont waste time trying to change

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Reviving GLEP33

2010-08-02 Thread Matti Bickel
On 08/03/2010 12:17 AM, David Leverton wrote: On 2 August 2010 22:40, Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org wrote: On 08/02/2010 08:16 PM, David Leverton wrote: If so, it sounds like what you really want is per-package eclasses (maybe with elibs as well to hold the non-metadata code), which aren't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations

2010-07-17 Thread Matti Bickel
On 07/17/2010 07:02 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: Do stabilisations on the security bug so arch team members can skim through their stabilisation list by just looking for secur...@g.o to find the vulnerable packages. V-Li If you want things to happen this way then it should be at least

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Security stabilisations

2010-07-17 Thread Matti Bickel
On 07/17/2010 07:58 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: As the CC'ing should be done by the security folks/the maintainer when a new ebuild is ready, I don't think it needs to be in devmanual. The relevant people should be aware of the process. If relevant people already know the policy and act

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: eclass/php5_1.eclass

2010-07-17 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi, since there's no dev-lang/php-5.1* version in the tree anymore, this eclass is useless. It will be removed on 17th August 2010. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: eclass/php5_1.eclass

2010-07-17 Thread Matti Bickel
On 07/17/2010 09:58 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: since there's no dev-lang/php-5.1* version in the tree anymore, this eclass is useless. It will be removed on 17th August 2010. I've just been told by scarabeus that eclass removal is a two years minimum process. So it'll be removed 17th August 2012

Re: Allow eclasses to have fluid APIs (was: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove php4 from depend.php and others)

2010-07-10 Thread Matti Bickel
On 07/10/2010 10:34 AM, Brian Harring wrote: If people want to allow eclasses to have fluid APIs (specifically removal of functionality), that's a discussion that needs to start on the dev level. Anyone got strong opinions on this one? The argument was presented a long time before: we

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-php5/znf

2010-07-09 Thread Matti Bickel
Late to the party, but anyway: # Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org (04 Jul 2010) # Dead upstream (bug #324825) # Masked for removal in 30 days dev-php5/znf signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of virtual/php from depend.php

2010-07-09 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi, in concert with bug 319623 the php team would like to remove virtual/php from the depend.php eclass. This will change DEPEND and RDEPEND strings for quite some packages. The basic idea is: virtual/php is only provided by dev-lang/php and has been for quite some time now. There are no plans

[gentoo-dev] RFC: remove php4 from depend.php and others

2010-07-09 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi, yet another patch from Ole in a bid to rid the php eclasses from some long forgotten code. The patches should be self-explanatory - just rip out everything related to dev-php4 :) Comments welcome. All the work will go into our overlay (slotting branch:

[gentoo-dev] FYI: dropping support for php4

2010-07-09 Thread Matti Bickel
Yeah, we have dropped support for PHP-4 in the tree for ages, but in the php4 overlay it still lives on. This is just a reminder that php4 will be even more broken when the recent patches will get applied. The php team does and will not support installations running on the php4 overlay and will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tone in Gentoo

2010-06-19 Thread Matti Bickel
On 06/19/2010 09:10 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: I think that is the point. Is just not being actively hostile a success? Given our past, yes. Given the size of our project, yes. The sheer size of the project guarantees that not everybody will like everyone. They merely get along and no thread

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving unmaintained packages to Sunrise

2010-06-13 Thread Matti Bickel
On 06/13/2010 10:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Wouldn't it be better to officially support moving unmaintained packages directly into Sunrise? In this case by 'unmaintained' I mean those which have open bugs assigned to 'maintainer-needed' for a long time, and are potentially a candidates for the

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-php5/{creole,jargon}

2010-06-13 Thread Matti Bickel
# Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org (13 Jun 2010) # Dead upstream (bug #321685) # Removal on 2010-07-13 dev-php5/jargon dev-php5/creole signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Actions of python team, especially Arfrever wrt python eclass and python-3*

2010-06-06 Thread Matti Bickel
On 06/06/2010 12:40 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: My base proposal for this is something like this: Every package defines the language(s), where it could be installed for multiple slots, e.g.: MULTI_SLOT=python or MULTI_SLOT=python ruby Additionally, it should define the supported slots,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bug wrangler queue is large...

2010-05-26 Thread Matti Bickel
On 05/26/2010 11:01 AM, Duncan wrote: [Reopening on RESO FIXED bugs as non-reporter] That's what clone bug is for... or at least what /I/ use it for. Resulting in extra work for wranglers. At least for the packages I maintain, I actually read my bugmail and will respond to comments even in RESO

Re: [gentoo-dev] bug wrangler queue is large...

2010-05-25 Thread Matti Bickel
On 05/25/2010 08:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: they are supposed to be doing basic triage, user feedback Can you be more specific? I wrangle bugs when there's a need and I'd like to hear what maintainers want to see on a bug assigned to them. If info is missing I usually ask for it and assign the

Re: [gentoo-dev] bug wrangler queue is large...

2010-05-25 Thread Matti Bickel
On 05/25/2010 09:33 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: i posted some specific examples already ... Sure enough. Just wanted to know if there's more to it than build.log and emerge --info. I'll try to extract something more than that next time. Goes w/o saying that bug cleanup should be done prior to

Re: [gentoo-dev] bug wrangler queue is large...

2010-05-25 Thread Matti Bickel
On 05/25/2010 10:08 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/bug-wranglers/index.xml Cool, I clearly not up to date here, I've never thought this to be a project. Thanks for the link. Wrt mentioning metadata.xml for herd lookup in there: I've found willikins' meta -v (in a

Re: [gentoo-dev] bug wrangler queue is large...

2010-05-25 Thread Matti Bickel
On 05/25/2010 10:08 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: NEEDINFO bugs cannot be reopened by other users, even if they provide the requested information. I utterly fail at finding documentation on that. I've recently hit a problem where a user couldn't reopen a RESO FIXED bug, too. Are bugzi permissions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Does anyone use the VERIFIED status in bugzilla?

2010-05-14 Thread Matti Bickel
On 05/14/2010 03:34 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: I'd like to see the whole thing go away. It's this one user I've pretty much ever seen using it. And he's using it to change RESOLVED status to VERIFIED on e.g. removal bugs, stabilization bugs, keywording bugs... cleanup++ [1] -

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: bugzilla flags for arch-testing

2010-04-26 Thread Matti Bickel
On 04/26/2010 11:40 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: To make it easier to find stabilization bugs with arch-testers' comments, I'd like to add new flags to Gentoo bugzilla. Can you explain how the TESTED Keyword is not sufficient for your goal? It explicitly states: Ebuilds that have been marked as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-14 Thread Matti Bickel
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org wrote: I rather like the changelogs auto-generated. A method to link my git commit to bugzie would be awesome. I *do* envy debian and others for the auto bughandling they have. Previewing more than a raw

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-13 Thread Matti Bickel
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: From my PoV, editing ChangeLog is like editing history. Complete no-no. It is possible in all major SCMs for a reason. And I (as a user) would laugh at Changelog entries saying um, I got that bug number wrong, it is really #1234. If I (as a developer) log such edits, I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation

2010-04-13 Thread Matti Bickel
Alec Warner wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Matti Bickel m...@gentoo.org wrote: Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: From my PoV, editing ChangeLog is like editing history. Complete no-no. It is possible in all major SCMs for a reason. And I (as a user) would laugh at Changelog entries saying um

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Matti Bickel
/me puts on his asbestos underwear Markos Chandras wrote: So the attendance to council meetings is enough to prove that a member is active? 0_o Yes. Anything else is just too hard to measure, imo. If you notice a council member acting w/o knowing what the heck is going on, then vote him down

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding the inactive members

2010-04-11 Thread Matti Bickel
Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: But isn't it the councils purpose to lead gentoo? It's my understanding that council gets elected to lead gentoo as a whole. But in the end the one doing the work gets to decide what's going on (as long as it's intra-project; the only thing i remember where council

[gentoo-dev] RFC: eblits.eclass

2010-04-10 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi folks, this is my first eclass proposal, so rip it apart gently ;) Disclaimer: the work proposed is NOT my own, but rather contributed by vapier (see [1] or sys-libs/glibc) and kumba (see [2] or sys-kernel/mips-sources). I propose to add eblits.eclass[2] (attached to this message) with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [Gentoo Phoenix] an official Gentoo wiki

2010-04-04 Thread Matti Bickel
Alistair Bush wrote: I'm not overly concerned about what wiki we use. But may I suggest we approach gentoo-wiki to see whether they would like to be involved. +1, especially the overly concerned part. Seriously folks. Just start it. Take whatever you as a person feel comfortable with. Talk

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is Gentoo dying?

2010-04-03 Thread Matti Bickel
Alec Warner wrote: The above are all pretty easy to do with the data in the tree. Some other useful ideas might be: - compare open bugs for the package, when was the last bug for a package closed (bugs data kinda sucks for this) An additional search: last touched by assignee between never

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-27 Thread Matti Bickel
Alec Warner wrote: Could we generate a bugzilla search for arch teams? Do arch teams already use existing bugzilla functionality? At least when i was with the ppc team, we had a bugzie search. And bugzie already sorts your query for you. I guess it could be made to only show keyword=STABLEREQ,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Matti Bickel
Samuli Suominen wrote: if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower Because i can't find this info on the treecleaner project page: is there a bugzilla query for the treecleaners queue, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog

2010-03-12 Thread Matti Bickel
Angelo Arrifano wrote: What do you people think on a new pkg_changelog function that would instruct the ebuild how to retrieve this kind of information from the package? No, please don't. I'm okay with it if your mean at the end of emerge -u atom, but wouldn't it be pointless to see what

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] ebuild function to show package changelog

2010-03-12 Thread Matti Bickel
Jeremy Olexa wrote: There is an optional changelog tag in metadata.xml. Good. Seems i'm not the first who thought about that ;) Yeah, maybe we can get the package managers to display the URLs corresponding to the atoms to be installed/updated when given a flag. But maybe that already exists, i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-12 Thread Matti Bickel
Ryan Hill wrote: I can't find it any more, but that's probably where this idea came from. It never really made sense to me but I've done it on several occasions. me too. I guess it's been handed down for ages. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2010-03-08 Thread Matti Bickel
Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:08:14PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: A stable user who doesn't want python 3 installed shouldn't have it forced on them. If something is pulling in python-3 then that package needs to have its dependencies fixed. IIRC Portage isn't greedy

Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

2009-04-04 Thread Matti Bickel
no matter who you like best is incredibly usefull. ++ Please, do it. Even an educated guess is better than nothing, raising the probability bug-wranglers can handle the bug even before it hits other devs' inboxes. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0

2009-03-22 Thread Matti Bickel
went for EAPI=2. How are other ebuild developers doing this? What's the package manager ppls take on this? -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) pgpr5TMoF3mbY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs implementation in eutils.eclass (was: prepalldocs is now banned)

2009-02-19 Thread Matti Bickel
} doins -r examples to: dodoc examples Your comments? Yes, please. It will simplify dozens of ebuilds and feels 'natural' to me. Keeping with doins, etc. i would propose to make it dodoc -r $something And thanks for your analysis. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2009-02-09 Thread Matti Bickel
Peter Volkov p...@gentoo.org wrote: В Вск, 08/02/2009 в 23:06 +0100, Matti Bickel пишет: +# could probably be lower +WANT_AUTOCONF=latest +WANT_AUTOMAKE=latest These are defaults. You don't need to specify them. + eautomake || die automake error eautomake dies on its own

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2009-02-08 Thread Matti Bickel
Hi, shame on me, here i'm wondering why noone replies... Sorry, i failed to send the updated patch o.O Here's the patch again w/ your suggestions included. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) --- /usr/portage/eclass/fox.eclass 2008-10-12 14:36

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Moving HOMEPAGE out of ebuilds for the future

2008-11-30 Thread Matti Bickel
. And while your proposal sounds more compliant to the DRY principle, i would object it on the basis that it makes a single ebuild actually harder to understand as you have to read (1) eclasses, (2) -base.ebuild and (3) -version.ebuild. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key

Re: [gentoo-dev] Time to say goodbye

2008-11-30 Thread Matti Bickel
you. And i'll see to fulfill my promise to get gentoo-stats going. See you on the other side (or some other event around here). -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) pgpl5mKjPyzyw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds

2008-11-15 Thread Matti Bickel
AND no arch member has spoken up. just my $0.02 -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) pgpaOntcepuKy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2008-10-13 Thread Matti Bickel
eclass-manpage foo now, thanks for the hint. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) --- gentoo-x86/eclass/fox.eclass2008-10-12 14:31:36.0 +0200 +++ fox-proposed.eclass 2008-10-13 20:27:05.0 +0200 @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ # Copyright 1999-2005

[gentoo-dev] RFC: fox.eclass update

2008-10-12 Thread Matti Bickel
of einfo * apply more variable quoting I'm sure, I missed one or the other issue. That's why I'm posting it here for public review. If you have requests or comments to make, please reply to this thread. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) # Copyright 1999

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: 0-day bump requests

2008-07-10 Thread Matti Bickel
of important to me, could we have a bump in the tree? kind of way. I DO get annoyed by package X has a bugfix release out 5 hours now, why isn't it in the tree yet!!? - but i don't get those bump requests... -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) pgpQTUflDLLsB.pgp

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council 2008/2009 - RESULTS

2008-07-10 Thread Matti Bickel
) Tobias Scherbaum (dertobi123) Looks like a mandate for the preexisting council. Thanks to everyone for your confidence in us! Thanks to you guys for working on the council. I really appreciate the work you, and especially donnie with the planning, put into this. -- Regards, Matti Bickel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in sys-cluster/pvfs2: ChangeLog pvfs2-2.6.3-r1.ebuild

2007-10-14 Thread Matti Bickel
the comparison and focus on the numbers. Will be fixed in the next release, along with kernel-2.4 support... -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) pgpGNkr8MFQEL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Trivial commit reviews

2007-09-24 Thread Matti Bickel
is wrong. Just my 0.02$ -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email preferred (key 4849EC6C) pgpSepMsMY6j8.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-irc/xdcc-fetch

2007-09-18 Thread Matti Bickel
# Matti Bickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18 Sep 2007) # Masked for removal in 30 days # Last release 2005, only works with # unsupported FXRuby-1.0 or -1.2. (bug #177785) net-irc/xdcc-fetch Jokey agreed to let it go. This will greatly simplify FXRuby stuff :-) -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2

2007-09-12 Thread Matti Bickel
Mike Doty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matti Bickel wrote: Hi, as previously mentioned, ion2 is currently broken (bug #167468) and going away in favour of the soon to be stable x11-wm/ion3. It will be p.masked and removed in 30 days unless someone speaks up and solves the issues

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2

2007-09-11 Thread Matti Bickel
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages of for grabs

2007-09-05 Thread Matti Bickel
Christian Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2007 21:41:07 Christian Heim wrote: maintainer-needed: - x11-wm/ion2 (twp) Will have last-rites this week. With the advent of ion3 stable in my overlay there's no use to keep it. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Signed/Encrypted email

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How to help an ebuild move along

2007-06-11 Thread Matti Bickel
with that :) -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgpdWg7s5MB62.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PMS] Version Naming Clarification

2007-06-07 Thread Matti Bickel
then i get any version of bar, which is fine. If i choose to specify sys-utils/bar-3 and bar-3 is not a valid atom, repoman cries at me. Thus, you can continue using the tree just fine :) HTH, -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgpKkjqgEdTea.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] What's it about, anyway?

2007-06-05 Thread Matti Bickel
, your fellow devs and our users. So please stop this nonsense and name-calling. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgprTlgdsqp6P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ion license

2007-05-13 Thread Matti Bickel
we apply. That's why the next build will tell ppl to bug me first. In general: i don't think forking is an option. I won't be maintaining a fork myself to begin with. If the general feeling is that ion is unacceptable in the tree, i'll mask it pending removal. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ion license

2007-05-13 Thread Matti Bickel
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matti Bickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How's that? I agree that this timely response clause will mean ion-3 will never go stable. That's the only thing i could envision to be a policy violation. Right, and packages that aren't aiming for stable

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ion license

2007-05-13 Thread Matti Bickel
reasoning is justified here. We do inform the user, everything else is not within our reach. And imho the license doesn't require more. If i get a cease and desist over *that*, well, screw it. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgp4MSlQKyGCY.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] RFC: ion license

2007-05-12 Thread Matti Bickel
/001959.html http://archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2007-April/004634.html -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2007. The code of this project is essentially licensed under the LGPL, version 2.1, unless otherwise indicated in components taken

Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: theology

2007-04-27 Thread Matti Bickel
last-rites for packages you convert over from maintainer-needed? Oh, and about that theology herd - i do find 'theology' a kinda narrow naming, but that's just me. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgpTVOJsY2bso.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Planning for automatic assignment of bugs

2007-04-27 Thread Matti Bickel
Robin H. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taking into account the other reasonable input, how about the name of attribute 'automatic-bug' ? I would like assign somewhere in the name, but i'd be fine with your proposal as well. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Encrypted/Signed Email preferred

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Aggelos Orfanakos (agorf)

2007-04-20 Thread Matti Bickel
! No, not far at all, just the other side of Europe, so no excuses :p I'll be umpire of this. And after that, i'll beat you two :p We need one more for a double.. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Homepage: http://www.rateu.de Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgpfusH8wCtzB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fw: [gentoo-core] [POLICY] Keywording/Stabilizing Bug Assignment Policy

2007-04-18 Thread Matti Bickel
sucks more than us discovering ups, $maintainer hasn't tested this code to be endian aware and it goes nuts on my machine and the maintainer not responding to it (yes, i'll prod $maintainer seperatly on IRC, but bugs is just way easier). -- Regards, Matti Bickel Homepage: http://www.rateu.de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Tobias Heinlein (keytoaster)

2007-04-15 Thread Matti Bickel
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dude masterdriverz is like 29, he just masquerades as a young person to pick up all the 16 year old hotties on irc. There's such a thing? I mean for real, and not 40 year old fatties posing as 16 year old hotties to masterdriverz.. -- Regards, Matti Bickel

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

2007-04-05 Thread Matti Bickel
can that be kept secret? -- Regards, Matti Bickel Homepage: http://www.rateu.de Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgpSbg74jRcs0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2007-04-04 Thread Matti Bickel
give the community some credit. We're not powerless, we'll never be. -- Regards, Matti Bickel Homepage: http://www.rateu.de Encrypted/Signed Email preferred pgpoJ5TYtw83W.pgp Description: PGP signature

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