[gentoo-dev] Re: LICENSE and revbumps

2008-08-27 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:02:02 +0200 Jeroen Roovers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:17:48 -0600 > Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Should LICENSE changes require a revision bump? > > No. > > Any ebuild should be published with a correct reference to a license. > If y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 27-08-2008 12:15:35 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > For those not using SSH ControlMaster, one of the side-effects of having > to do two separate commits is the SSH setup latency hitting twice. > > I wouldn't call it repoman's fault like Fabian did, but the Right. I thought I suggested that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 27-08-2008 11:57:30 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > > For who is it a mess? Not for repoman users, I suppose, and everyone > > should be using it, right? As the one who personally played with the > > code in repoman that determines whether or not the "double commit" is > > necessary, I think it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > So you are saying we should do what? > > precompute the CVS header and inject it into $header$ ourselves > take the checksums > generate the manifest > revert the $header$ change > then commit the ebuild and manifest at once > > The o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Fabian Groffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27-08-2008 10:28:57 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: >> > For that reason I'd pretty much prefer to keep the CVS Header in place, >> > unless there is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 27-08-2008 10:28:57 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > For that reason I'd pretty much prefer to keep the CVS Header in place, > > unless there is a very good reason to remove it. > As I wrote in the other thread, my reason for as

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > For that reason I'd pretty much prefer to keep the CVS Header in place, > unless there is a very good reason to remove it. As I wrote in the other thread, my reason for asking is that it's one of the things that doesn't have clear ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:40 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > Q: How much have you utilized the primary use case? Not at all > Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively use? No

Re: [gentoo-dev] Usages of CVS $Header$ keyword in ebuilds - use cases wanted

2008-08-27 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 26-08-2008 15:41:07 -0500, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:40:36 -0700 > "Robin H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm doing some research on our usages of the $Header$ keyword in our > > main CVS repo. > > > > Q: Are there any other use-cases you have and actively us

Re: [gentoo-dev] LICENSE and revbumps

2008-08-27 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Ryan Hill wrote: On the other hand, it also seems completely ridiculous from a practical POV to have to wait 30 days (and waste arch team resources) to fix an incorrect licence on a stable package. And have everyone recompile the package, thus wasting cpu cycles and users' time. I would have

[gentoo-dev] Re: LICENSE and revbumps

2008-08-27 Thread Duncan
Yuri Vasilevski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:34:27 -0500: > As Another example, the user might statically link bits of the exact > same library against a GPL-2 (not a GPL-2 or latter) program, just > because he is misinformed by portage tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] LICENSE and revbumps

2008-08-27 Thread Rémi Cardona
Yuri Vasilevski a écrit : > so, my point is that licences are very important in some environments > and to some people, and having an inconsistently can cause serious > legal problems to users. So it is very important to keep them in sync > in all tree of upstream, portage tree and vdb tree. And p

Re: [gentoo-dev] LICENSE and revbumps

2008-08-27 Thread Yuri Vasilevski
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:10:06 +0200 Ulrich Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should LICENSE changes require a revision bump? > > No, since it would be a waste of users' resources. > > For example, if a dev has missed a change from GPL-2 to GPL-3 (which I > guess is a common case), would you

[gentoo-dev] Stabilization of poppler-0.8

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Alfredsen
Hi, It won't be long before I ask for poppler-0.8 and -bindings to be stabilized. This will bump the soname for poppler and force a rebuild of all packages depending on it. I've opened a tracker bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/235897 where you can add a comment or place a blocker bug if you want