[gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites for app-misc/colortail

2006-04-02 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
You broke deps with that masking. I've commented it in package.mask so you can fix that up first. Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Mark Loeser wrote: Upstream has been dead for years and is unmaintained. Also requires some reworking to compile with gcc-4

[gentoo-dev] New virtuals: virtual/findutils virtual/admin-users virtual/admin-processes

2006-04-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Okay three more virtuals that I think should be implemented. The first would be for generic findutils, that is find and xargs commands; it would be satisfied by sys-apps/findutils or one of the BSD -ubin packages. This will solve problems of packages depending on sys-apps/findutils and then usi

[gentoo-dev] Special request for maintainer / auditor of LiSt Package

2006-04-02 Thread Jeremy Sands
Let me preface this by saying that I am aware of the large amounts of bad blood existing between various Gentoo dev members and 'dma147'. I was not poking around under the hood of Gentoo when things transpired, so I am unaware of what happened... and frankly don't care to know what happened.

[gentoo-dev] aging ebuilds with unstable keywords

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel Ahlberg
Hi, This is an automatically created email message. http://gentoo.tamperd.net/stable has just been updated with 15047 ebuilds. The page shows results from a number of tests that are run against the ebuilds. The tests are: * if a version has been masked for 30 days or more. * if an arch was in KE

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:20 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 04:48, Daniel Goller wrote: > > exactly, what's the point of removing it so fast? give people a chance > > to miss it, it does not matter if it's removed or masked only as far as > > going "woah, what?" and if masked

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 03 April 2006 01:54, Daniel Goller wrote: > you are really trying hard to get gtk(1) Everyone as s/he likes. I favor the deprecation of the gtk2 flag and start dancing on my chair, once we have a Portage version with slot/use depends in arch. But this is a completely different topic: K

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Daniel Goller
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:17 +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 00:29, foser wrote: > > Already security related issues have been dropped by upstream for the > > simple reason that it hasn't been maintained since the day gtk went > > 2.0 . > > Why didn't you file (Gentoo) securi

[gentoo-dev] Last rites for app-misc/colortail

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Loeser
Upstream has been dead for years and is unmaintained. Also requires some reworking to compile with gcc-4; bug #122022. It will be removed in 4 weeks unless someone steps up to maintain it. -- Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gent

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Alexander Gretencord
On Sunday 02 April 2006 17:23, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > This is not the case. At least unless the user actively looks at > package.mask. Since Portage doesn't provide the information, this point is > void. And even if - four weeks are a too long, imho. As Andrej Kacian already noted, there are quit

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Alexander Gretencord
On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:12, Jan Kundrát wrote: > > And considering that upstream is dead for about a year I think most > > people will not try to update that package every 2 days or something like > > that. > Most people upgrade the whole system at once - those would see a warning > about masked

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 00:53 +0200, foser wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 00:43 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > Delaying GNOME-2.14 for non-GNOME packages using gtk2 USE flag is mildly > > funny to me, too. > > These two things are not related, 2.14 is not delayed whatsoever. > Jakub's call was just

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Monday 03 April 2006 00:29, foser wrote: > Already security related issues have been dropped by upstream for the > simple reason that it hasn't been maintained since the day gtk went > 2.0 . Why didn't you file (Gentoo) security bugs? Perfect reason to drop Gtk1 support, if no one steps up to

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread foser
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 00:43 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > Delaying GNOME-2.14 for non-GNOME packages using gtk2 USE flag is mildly > funny to me, too. These two things are not related, 2.14 is not delayed whatsoever. Jakub's call was just to get attention to the bugs and didn't originate from the

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 03 April 2006 00:29, foser wrote: > I don't think gtk 1 will leave the tree soon, but at least we can try to > make it unneeded on most users systems. I would just give my 2 eurocents about this, although I originally wasn't so keen on having gtk2 useflag dropped entirely. gtk 1.2 has a

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread foser
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:16 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the "lets > remove > packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... it benefits no one Sure it does, in my experience unmaintained packages tend to depend on unmaintained

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread foser
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 15:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > last time i recall following the gtk/gtk2 stuff, the idea was that in the > future to move to a gtk/gtk1 situation ... but this was back when Spider was > The Man, so i guess people forgot about that That was never the case. We actually

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 23:26, Jakub Moc wrote: > Not that I'd care so much whether it's a week or a month (IMO individual > depending on ebuild in question) - so just a technical note. Portage 2.1 > *does* spit out the relevant info. I'm aware of this, but that doesn't help anyone running running

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Andrej Kacian
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:42:50 -0300 "Marcelo Góes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/2/06, Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is not the case. At least unless the user actively looks at > > package.mask. Since Portage doesn't provide the information, this point is > > void. And even

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 23:20 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:34, Jakub Moc wrote: > >> Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the > >>> "lets remove packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Marcelo Góes
On 4/2/06, Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not the case. At least unless the user actively looks at package.mask. > Since Portage doesn't provide the information, this point is void. And even > if - four weeks are a too long, imho. I still do not understand what the rush is wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:40, Mike Frysinger wrote: > lets apply the same logic to all things unmaintained ! Yes, that's one reason I am so annoyed of the unmaintained parts of the tree. > besides, you're talking about removing GTK1 completely ... this thread is > talking about deprecating the g

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Jakub Moc
Carsten Lohrke wrote: > I don't see the necessity for devs and users would have to look at the > package.mask file regularly to get the information that a package is masked. > If Portage would be that smart to spit out the relevant information on > emerge --sync, a longer period would probably m

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:29, Simon Stelling wrote: > Come on. Is this a 'policy doesn't say I have to be sane' war? It's > absolutely reasonable to p.mask a package that is pending for removal. That > way you give the users a timeframe which they can search for alternative > tools in. This is n

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:34, Jakub Moc wrote: >> Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the >>> "lets remove packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... it >>> benefits no one >> No bugs filed? Well, just search the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 22:33, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > This is a recent change, and usually someone replies with "why not a > month?". This is simply not true or we have very different ideas of the meaning of recent. The vast majority of "last rites" emails from 2005 had slated removals of one

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 April 2006 16:09, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > it should be more the question, if there's anyone supporting > > > Gtk1 upstream with regards to security issues etc.. > > > > and when such a situation arises, the solution may to simp

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:20:49 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > The usual period is thirty days. | | Grep this mailing list, most often a one week period was used. This is a recent change, and usually someone replies with "wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Simon Stelling
Carsten Lohrke wrote: Who said a package gets masked before it gets removed? There is no such requirement in the ebuild policy. Come on. Is this a 'policy doesn't say I have to be sane' war? It's absolutely reasonable to p.mask a package that is pending for removal. That way you give the user

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > The usual period is thirty days. Grep this mailing list, most often a one week period was used. > Once it's in p.mask it's effectively gone, to the extent that ignoring > it for a month is fine. Who said a package gets masked before it gets

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Harald van D??k
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 10:00:25PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:51, Harald van D??k wrote: > > Others did speak up at that time. The result: > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/31641 > > Yeah, that was the one and only single voice. On gentoo-d

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:28, Mike Frysinger wrote: > last time i recall following the gtk/gtk2 stuff, the idea was that in the > future to move to a gtk/gtk1 situation ... but this was back when Spider > was The Man, so i guess people forgot about that No, see the whole thread Harald references

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:34, Jakub Moc wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the > > "lets remove packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... it > > benefits no one > > No bugs filed? Well, just search the archives of this ML, an

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:51, Harald van Dijk wrote: > Others did speak up at that time. The result: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/31641 Yeah, that was the one and only single voice. Carsten pgplFkefqq6Ma.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Harald van D??k
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 09:12:28PM +0200, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 20:41, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > nothing personal, but who are you to say whether it's legit ? > > It's really not a question what's legit (heck, you started using this term, > so > blaming Olivier for usin

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger wrote: > and if there are no bugs filed ? this sort of stance is like the "lets remove > packages from portage because upstream is dead" ... it benefits no one No bugs filed? Well, just search the archives of this ML, and search bugzilla for all those bugs about portage pulling in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 21:20:21 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We haven't had a single issue with the usual seven day period The usual period is thirty days. | > in short, if it's slowing down the process, why do you need it to be | > quick in the first place? | | Getting the junk

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:12, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 20:41, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > nothing personal, but who are you to say whether it's legit ? > > It's really not a question what's legit (heck, you started using this term, > so blaming Olivier for using it is a bit od

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 04:48, Daniel Goller wrote: > exactly, what's the point of removing it so fast? give people a chance > to miss it, it does not matter if it's removed or masked only as far as > going "woah, what?" and if masked it is a matter of unmasking rather > than recommitting We haven

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 April 2006 15:02, Jakub Moc wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:22, Olivier Crête wrote: > >> On Sun, 2006-02-04 at 13:08 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:05, Jakub Moc wrote: > This is a (not-so happy) reminder that the agony

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Sunday 02 April 2006 20:41, Mike Frysinger wrote: > nothing personal, but who are you to say whether it's legit ? It's really not a question what's legit (heck, you started using this term, so blaming Olivier for using it is a bit odd), but what we (can and want to) support. Wouldn't it have

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Jan Kundrát
Alexander Gretencord wrote: > And considering that upstream is dead for about a year I think most > people will not try to update that package every 2 days or something like > that. Most people upgrade the whole system at once - those would see a warning about masked package. Cheers, -jkt -- c

Re: [gentoo-dev] [last rites] media-gfx/sodipodi

2006-04-02 Thread Alexander Gretencord
On Saturday 01 April 2006 22:52, Mark Loeser wrote: > > Yes, there is. It's slowing down the process, getting into the flow. > > Waiting 30 days is a lot of time. A regular user does not necessarily > > follow the dev-gentoo mailing list and it doesn't matter for him, if the > > package is masked o

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Jakub Moc
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:22, Olivier Crête wrote: >> On Sun, 2006-02-04 at 13:08 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:05, Jakub Moc wrote: This is a (not-so happy) reminder that the agony of gtk2 use flag will have been lasting for half a y

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:22, Olivier Crête wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-04 at 13:08 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:05, Jakub Moc wrote: > > > This is a (not-so happy) reminder that the agony of gtk2 use flag will > > > have been lasting for half a year soon. It *really* n

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 02 April 2006 20:16, Mike Frysinger wrote: > or you can be the hero and fix the packages ehehe yeah I'll do when i'll have more time, like i did for binutils ;) By the way, that patch? :P -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD,

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2006-02-04 at 13:08 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:05, Jakub Moc wrote: > > This is a (not-so happy) reminder that the agony of gtk2 use flag will > > have been lasting for half a year soon. It *really* needs to die. > > too bad it doesnt address packages which s

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:04, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Thus my request to zmedico to have a per-package use.mask so that we can > mask the flag for the packages that can use only the sys-apps/acl > interface. or you can be the hero and fix the packages ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.or

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:41:25 -0400 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your own words what benefit does this have over > kernel_linux? ( acl? ( sys-apps/acl )) It moves all of the platform-conditional voodoo into one place, which helps maintainability and will greatly reduce the work involv

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:26:27 +0100 Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | We have a fair number of packages in the tree (57 someone said, but a > | non-trivial number) which depend upon sys-apps/acl for ACL support. > | Since the packages needed for this differ bet

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Sunday 02 April 2006 19:41, Ned Ludd wrote: > Do they use the same API? Not all of them, although some API are common iirc. Most, but not all, of the packages has anyway fallback to the right API in the right system (it's the case of vim and bsdtar at least, and should be the same for kdelibs,

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:26:27 +0100 Stephen Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | We have a fair number of packages in the tree (57 someone said, but a | non-trivial number) which depend upon sys-apps/acl for ACL support. | Since the packages needed for this differ between platforms | (sys-apps/acl is

Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:26 +0100, Stephen Bennett wrote: > We have a fair number of packages in the tree (57 someone said, but a > non-trivial number) which depend upon sys-apps/acl for ACL support. > Since the packages needed for this differ between platforms > (sys-apps/acl is for linux only), i

[gentoo-dev] virtual/acl

2006-04-02 Thread Stephen Bennett
We have a fair number of packages in the tree (57 someone said, but a non-trivial number) which depend upon sys-apps/acl for ACL support. Since the packages needed for this differ between platforms (sys-apps/acl is for linux only), if noone has any reasonable objections I will be adding a (new-styl

Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 02 April 2006 12:05, Jakub Moc wrote: > This is a (not-so happy) reminder that the agony of gtk2 use flag will > have been lasting for half a year soon. It *really* needs to die. too bad it doesnt address packages which still legitimately utilize gtk/gtk2 i for one wont be "fixing" thes

[gentoo-dev] gtk2 use flag must die

2006-04-02 Thread Jakub Moc
This is a (not-so happy) reminder that the agony of gtk2 use flag will have been lasting for half a year soon. It *really* needs to die. For affected ebuilds, please see the attached list and Bug 106560. Thanks. -- jakub app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.2 app-editors/mp-3.3.12 app-editors/mp-3.3.14 app-

[gentoo-dev] xml2 use flag deprecation - ping (Bug 116346)

2006-04-02 Thread Jakub Moc
This is just a friendly reminder that Bug 116346 doesn't seem to be moving much. :P The two months old list seems still almost fully valid. http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=79178&action=view Do we manage to kill the flag? Always good to have one redundant flag less... ;) Thanks. -- ja