Re: [gentoo-dev] New eclass for Python

2012-02-29 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ctually we already hit it): it has various types of scripting support, and each installs a KDE library linked to whatever language interpreter. (Now, that library- is it a Python/Ruby library or a KDE library? Because it is at the proper place for KDE stuff :) It's not just about calling an

Re: [gentoo-dev] lurking *.ebuild'less packages

2012-03-15 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ossible.) Cheers, A -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making user patches globally available

2012-04-15 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
o epatch, to ensure ordering * (and adapt the functions in base and eutils accordingly for that EAPI) Opinions? Best, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] Feature request: package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force

2012-04-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
h pulls in non-stabilized systemd as dependency... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force

2012-04-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
yes > x86 ~x86 | x86 ~x86 | no > ** | **| no > amd64 ~amd64 | ~amd64| no > > 3) Apply package.stable settings if INTERSECTION contains only stable > keywords. For example, see the package.stable column

Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force

2012-04-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
kend bugs in cups-1.4). Then the consensus would have been "you can use this but it's not as bug-free", there may have been even an ewarn about it, ... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force

2012-04-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
.5.2-r20) could not be stabilized without a stable systemd, because systemd is a dependency (optional on useflag systemd). -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Feature request: package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force

2012-04-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Freitag 27 April 2012, 11:30:57 schrieb Michael Haubenwallner: > On 04/27/12 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > as soon as possible (which likely means in the next EAPI?): > > * two new files in profile directories supported, package.use.stable.mask > > and pac

[gentoo-dev] New category for (libre)office extensions: office-ext ?

2012-05-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
dreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass: set default of CMAKE_VERBOSE=1

2012-05-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
lay it correctly with one click (always have to download, save, ...) * and often files end up double-compressed, i.e. save log.gz, gunzip, rename log to log.gz, gunzip :( Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for (libre)office extensions: office-ext?

2012-05-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2012, 23:15:46 schrieb Markos Chandras: > On 05/05/2012 08:04 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Sat, 5 May 2012 20:40:47 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" > > > > wrote: > >> there's a growing culture of libreoffice extensions, and (with >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: libtool.eclass

2012-05-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
s/ directory once, and repeating it now) > > Maybe we could punt ChangeLog from eclass/ and generate it automatically > from commit messages Maybe we could punt ChangeLogs generally and generate them from commit messages... err... hasn't this been discussed before? :o( --

Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass: set default of CMAKE_VERBOSE=1

2012-05-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag 05 Mai 2012, 20:54:09 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 18:30:10 schrieb hasufell: > > # @ECLASS-VARIABLE: CMAKE_VERBOSE > > # @DESCRIPTION: > > # Set to enable verbose messages during compilation. > > > > By default this is deac

Re: [gentoo-dev] skel.ebuild cosmetics (move RESTRICT after DEPEND)

2012-05-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
So, a RESTRICT line placed after > *DEPEND will be much more easily missed than in its current place. This entire ridiculous discussion just makes me convinced that it's best to * use neither vi nor emacs * and stick to my own personal preference of variable order, which is not identical to either. Eat this! -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for (libre)office extensions: office-ext?

2012-05-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> >>>>> On Sun, 6 May 2012, Andreas K Huettel wrote: > > I've collected information and the extensions (should) work with any > > office variant, openoffice and libreoffice. To be more precise, they > > should work with anything that uses the so-called &quo

[gentoo-dev] New category for (libre)office extensions: app-officeext

2012-05-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
t; new category prefix for this. The category should be named app-* > > instead. After some discussion with Ulrich on IRC, we settled on the name "app-officeext", which we'll be able to fill with a couple of hundred (open|libre)office extensions then... :) I guess t

Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for (libre)office extensions: app-officeext

2012-05-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag 08 Mai 2012, 12:30:04 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > > After some discussion with Ulrich on IRC, we settled on the name > "app-officeext", > which we'll be able to fill with a couple of hundred (open|libre)office > extensions then... :) I guess th

Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
expected the Calligra release to take so long. KOffice is basically dead code, and will be removed as soon as Calligra goes stable (and I intend to file the stablerequest tomorrow). -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org ht

Re: [gentoo-dev] pushing fixes to stable before closing bugs

2012-05-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ation for tracking stabilizations, instead of using bugzilla. Alternatively, one could extend bugzilla in a way that each closed bug report MUST contain an affected package version *range*. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?

2012-05-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
I DO change, due to all the noise from files I don't > touch. exactly!!! -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Remove eclass/ChangeLog (was: Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: autotools.eclass)

2012-05-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> today. > > > > I will repeat once again: autogenerate them. > > +1 for this, seriously. Yes please. And forget about the difference between "user-oriented" and "dev-oriented". That's only an issue for people with too much time (also for deb

[gentoo-dev] So...

2012-05-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
... since the bugs seem to be stalled and noone has recently posted on gentoo- scm, what's the real status of the infamous git migration? :) Cheers, A -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > Please discuss my arguments and come to the conclusions to > RESO/WONT-FIX "testing git-cvsserver", make a "clean cut" and remove > this bug from the blockers of "[TRACKER] portage migration to git". > +1 Please cut cvs support once and

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-05-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:42:37 +0200 > > Kill it! And while we're at it, kill ChangeLogs as well! > > /me hides... +1 +1 +1 +1 ... -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: KOffice

2012-05-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-office/krita app-office/kspread app-office/kword -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds

2012-05-28 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
you know what is going on here? * is foomatic-filters-ppds obsoleted by "foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine"? * or should we make an updated tarball? how? Any advice would be enormously appreciated. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http:/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-05-28 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
No objections. Excellent idea. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-06-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
imported into the main tree would certainly help in some cases. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-06-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
oot, because a rebase will in every case destroy previous signatures. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Portage Git migration - clean cut or git-cvsserver

2012-06-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> On 2 June 2012 03:12, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> "git cat-file -p $sha" is as close as you can get to commit objects > >> without needing to write your own decompressing wrapper. But it gives > >> the same results. > > > > Now

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git braindump: 2 of N: developer interaction (merge co-ordinators)

2012-06-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
r to whatever comes out in our labs, could then be postprocessed and visualized... :) ) Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git braindump: 1 of N: merging & git signing

2012-06-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
d about is, how do we automatize it so a developer who is not end-of- the-line git guru and ends up with some user-signed commits in his history can clean up his local tree again. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git braindump: 1 of N: merging & git signing

2012-06-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2012, 18:01:04 schrieb Dirkjan Ochtman: > On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Andreas K. Huettel > > wrote: > > Sounds reasonable given the current state of git. Let's just be clear > > about the following consequence (I hope I understand this correct

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-misc/mDNSResponder

2012-06-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
For removal in 30 days. # Andreas K. Hüttel (03 Jun 2012) # Not maintained well in Gentoo for a long time. Better support # for zeroconf is available via net-dns/avahi[mdnsresponder-compat] # - please use that instead. mDNSResponder will be removed soon. net-misc/mDNSResponder -- Andreas K

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Git braindump: 1 of N: merging & git signing

2012-06-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
signed is the "new data" plus the parent hash(es). No such thing as a "tree hash". -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] monthly Gentoo KDE team meeting

2012-06-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
;f=Documentation/maintainers/meetings/meeting-2012-06;hb=HEAD Cheers! Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] Authorship of app-doc/pms

2012-06-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
quest that the following patch is applied to branches master and eapi-5. Best, Andreas >From 3572b4cb400b2ff156e4f28d3dffe82c687a1dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andreas K. Huettel" Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:03:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update author informati

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-pms] Authorship of app-doc/pms

2012-06-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
be on there, and > adding anyone who says yes, rather than on bogus stats. Well at least I added some data to undermine my request. Your turn now. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] A friendly reminder: Ciaran McCreesh is not a Gentoo dev

2012-06-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Freitag 22 Juni 2012, 04:12:48 schrieb Sylvain Alain: > Amen to that too, but can you post the actual comments that he said ? > SMTP Error "552 Message too large" -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> The main question is: what would you like to have on this dashboard? Not only the information whether ~arch is outdated, but also whether stable is outdated... > custom newsletter based on the packages you're watching, please also as rss feed... cheers, andreas -- Andreas

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
o the tree update than to re-scan upstream... -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About trying to prevent downgrades of packages that cause system breakage

2012-06-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
accidentally or not-knowingly downgrades something critical. Thoughts? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ist. I dont really need an item whenever something enters portage How about a news feed that only contains "upstream" items? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signatur

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-07-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
that doesn't have userpriv enabled by default. If you run ebuild as user (belonging to group portage), that won't help... better add a "chmod -R g+w" too... -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

2012-07-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
user has to do something him/herself either way. I guess we dont have to care for this case. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] base.eclass

2012-07-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
its relevant functionality is only moving to a better place. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: old udev versions

2012-07-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
really very happy with the company... -a -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] epatch still no helper function? [from eutils.eclass]

2012-07-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
hings like test which version of epatch the package > manager providessounds a lot like EAPI :) > You know, that's actually a pretty good case *for* base.eclass, eutils.eclass and similar... we should probably move more functions there... :D -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing

[gentoo-dev] Request for council vote - package.use.stable.mask and package.use.stable.force

2012-07-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- dev/msg_53f32ab76ba5861d655436b0927e6956.xml [2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- pms/msg_8e5045bdb9761409a1a8a65ac2757c38.xml -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fraunhofer FDK license

2012-07-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ed without cost. I.e., licensing fees still apply as "per unit fee". http://www.vialicensing.com/licensing/aac-overview.aspx Sometimes I have the feeling that Fraunhofer (which is after all funded 30% by German federal and state money) just "does not get it". -- And

Re: [gentoo-dev] UTF-8 locale by default

2012-08-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
tands against the rest of the planet. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-text/epdfview

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Huettel (7 Aug 2012) # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with cups-1.6. # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. Masked for # removal in 30 days. app-text/epdfview -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer d

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/epdfview

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag 07 August 2012, 00:28:16 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > # Andreas K. Huettel (7 Aug 2012) > # Many display bugs and compatibility problems, does not build with > cups-1.6. # Upstream is dead. There's no real way to support this anymore. > Masked for # removal in 30

[gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-python/pivy sci-libs/opencascade media-gfx/freecad

2012-08-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
d in a few days. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] package up for grab: dev-vcs/subversion

2012-08-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
onse time, feel free to take this package. Since I'm (for historic reasons) outside Gentoo a heavy subversion user, I'll have a look... no promises yet.. :) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] boost-utils.eclass -- for building against newest boost.

2012-08-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
of the automatic version (use sparingly). # The output of this should be added directly to DEPEND/RDEPEND, and may be # wrapped in a USE conditional (but not an || conditional without an extra set # of parentheses). ) Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), s

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-08-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
d I unceremoniously bumped it to 4. One was EAPI 0. Having fun with || there. I dont consider this list complete, feel free to add. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-08-31 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
). It will not be any fun to look up things in PMS anew everytime you edit something. (Was the prayer to Paludis only required in EAPI=7 in src_prepare or in EAPI=8 in pkg_preinst?) This problem could however also be solved by selectively phasing out in-between EAPIs (i.e. depr

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-08-31 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Freitag, 31. August 2012, 11:11:37 schrieb Fabian Groffen: > On 31-08-2012 11:03:06 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > any fun to look up things in PMS anew everytime you edit something. (Was > > the prayer to Paludis only required in EAPI=7 in src_prepare or in > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Future Trends

2012-09-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
md threads already. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (team lead), sci, tex, arm, printing dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-09-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
th the time that you need for a version bump of a package anyway (check upstream changelog, verify dependencies have not changed, do a test build, check for correct installation locations, ...) As an additional bonus this keeps your memory fresh about all the great new features... Cheers, Andreas -

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

2012-09-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
nordered sub-versions ("4-xxx") if needed. or at least keep all PMS-approved eapis ordered. "Experimental eapis for use in third party software" should not require any mentioning in pms anyway. :] However, that is a different discussion. Someday I'll start a separat

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Future EAPI] src_fetch() phase function to support VCS fetching

2012-09-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
really be for data transfer only. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Future EAPI] src_fetch() phase function to support VCS fetching

2012-09-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
and cups (main tree, subversion). -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, sci, arm, tex, printing signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2012-09-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
llcms media-gfx/brlcad (*) media-video/bombono-dvd net-firewall/fwbuilder net-libs/liboping net-wireless/libertas-firmware sci-misc/gcam (*) Collectd and BRLcad have users as proxy maintainers. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde (ex team lead), sci, tex, arm, pri

[gentoo-dev] Printer drivers and net-print

2017-02-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hey all, 1) Putting printer drivers into "net-print" is silly. Something that converts format a to device-specific format b has absolutely nothing to do with network. So, a new category "sys-print", emphasizing that it's hardware drivers, (or "cups-drv"?) (or maybe "media-print"?) might make s

Live ebuilds in the main tree (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] ...)

2017-02-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2017, 14:39:55 CET schrieb Francesco Riosa: > BTW that help a lot we, users, that want to test that package in the limbo > time upstream has done some changes and the ebuild as not caught up. > Othrewise just avoid the - in tree, a lot of developer have said they > are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of CVS headers

2017-02-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2017, 21:16:28 CET schrieb Lars Wendler: > I am completely against removal of this header line. It does _not_ do > any harm and I don't understand why people want it to be removed so > badly. > Now QA again wants to do a questionable action _without_ any approval > from neit

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: [Bug 597822] www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.10 dev-perl/Chatbot-Eliza-1.60.0 keyword request

2017-03-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Forwarded message: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597822 --- Comment #5 from Andreas K. Hüttel --- @@@ IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ARCH TEAMS @@ I'll drop keywords for mod_perl and all of its reverse dependencies for any arch that has not even restored the KEYWORD yet in th

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-libs/btparse

2017-03-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
(side notes, * the original dev-libs/btparse library has not seen any updates since 2007 * the Perl version removed the separate (autoconf) build system, so only Makefile.PL really works now...) # Andreas K. Hüttel (11 Mar 2017) # Dead upstream; the library has been picked up by # dev-perl/Text

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/Net-Google-SafeBrowsing-UpdateRequest dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-GoogleSafeBrowsing

2017-03-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Hüttel (11 Mar 2017) # Fails since upgrade to dev-lang/perl-5.12 (!). # Removal in 30 days. Bug 336898. dev-perl/Net-Google-SafeBrowsing-UpdateRequest dev-perl/Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-GoogleSafeBrowsing -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/Nagios-Plugin

2017-03-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Hüttel (16 Mar 2017) # Replaced by dev-perl/Monitoring-Plugin, bug 575986 # Removal in 30 days dev-perl/Nagios-Plugin -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/Nagios-Plugin

2017-03-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Freitag, 17. März 2017, 04:00:25 CET schrieb Kent Fredric: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 23:42:43 +0100 > > "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > # Andreas K. Hüttel (16 Mar 2017) > > # Replaced by dev-perl/Monitoring-Plugin, bug 575986 > > # Removal

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/GStreamer dev-perl/GStreamer-Interfaces

2017-03-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Hüttel (17 Mar 2017) # Requires obsolete gstreamer:0.10, bug 604686 # Removal in 30 days dev-perl/GStreamer dev-perl/GStreamer-Interfaces -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424

2017-03-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 20. März 2017, 09:35:44 CET schrieb Mike Frysinger: > On 16 Mar 2017 10:38, Michał Górny wrote: > > Convert the usage of eblits in sys-devel/autoconf into an equivalent > > eclass. This makes the ebuilds more readable, more predictable and fixes > > compliance with stricter versions of t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424

2017-03-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 21. März 2017, 11:24:39 CET schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > > So what's so special about your packages that you *need* a hack as ugly as > eblits? > No response. Seems like there are no real arguments for eblits. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424

2017-03-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2017, 10:51:01 CET schrieb Alexis Ballier: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:41:39 +0100 > > "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 21. März 2017, 11:24:39 CET schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > > > So what's so special about your packages

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/File-DirWalk

2017-03-24 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Hüttel (24 Mar 2017) # Tests fail recently, module is abandoned, upstream does # not respond, no revdeps. Removal in 30 days. Bug 603918. dev-perl/File-DirWalk -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) signature.asc Description: T

[gentoo-dev] Proposal: profiles/arches.desc - improve repoman flexibility (with other benefits)

2017-03-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hey all, here's the updated proposal for a new "arches.desc" file, after feedback. In short: We introduce a new file "arches.desc" which essentially describes if an arch (not a profile) is stable or not. The meaning of profiles.desc is not affected; profiles.desc still describes single profiles

[gentoo-dev] Tree signing and verification on the user side - status?

2017-04-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hey all, while we're discussing super-strength hash algos, it would be cool to know what's still missing for * rsync-side manifest signing in whatever way * verification of such signatures in portage / emerge This is the bigger problem (probably also requiring more work though)... Cheers, And

Re: [gentoo-dev] Tree signing and verification on the user side - status?

2017-04-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > while we're discussing super-strength hash algos, it would be cool to know > what's still missing for > * rsync-side manifest signing in whatever way > * verification of such signatures in portage / emerge > (and just to put it in a reference frame, I'm these days reading mailing list discu

[gentoo-dev] Down with EAPI=3 !

2017-04-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hey all, there are only 299 ebuilds with EAPI=3 left in our tree, so eliminating EAPI=3 usage is within reach! http://www.akhuettel.de/~huettel/plots/eapi.php A list of ebuilds is attached to the tracker bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=EAPI3Removal So, if you're maintaining a pack

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc

2017-04-25 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 14:35:48 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: > Hi, > > I'm thinking of masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc, in particular > older than the 4.9 branch. > Masking is fine; some time later (maybe in a few months) I'd even suggest masking all of gcc-4. After all, unmasking them

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: masking old versions of sys-devel/gcc

2017-04-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2017, 02:37:17 CEST schrieb Francesco Riosa: > 2017-04-26 0:26 GMT+02:00 Andreas K. Huettel : > > Am Sonntag, 23. April 2017, 14:35:48 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm thinking of masking old versions of sys-deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing

2017-05-01 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 30. April 2017, 12:29:46 CEST schrieb Mart Raudsepp: > > Please stop editing package lists when you are not the maintainer and > arches are already CCed. > +1 Please stop it. And yes that's also true for arch team members. Package list is maintainer territory. -- Andreas K. Hüttel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing

2017-05-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2017, 14:32:13 CEST schrieb Ulrich Mueller: > > On Tue, 2 May 2017, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > > Also very common is that he changes fully qualified package names > > (which is the correct syntax per [1]) into fully qualified package > > atoms (which is the legacy

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing

2017-05-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2017, 13:05:38 CEST schrieb Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn: > > Also very common is that he changes fully qualified package names (which > is the correct syntax per [1]) into fully qualified package atoms (which > is the legacy syntax). Bug 616260 is one such example. That's one

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla package list editing

2017-05-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2017, 18:27:58 CEST schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > > The much better alternative would be > * Don't do any cosmetic changes. They are pointless for a bot-evaluated > field. * If you need additional keywords or want to drop something, leave > one sentence on

Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-6.x status inquiry

2017-05-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > I see that gcc-6.3 doesn't have keywords, so I'm > wondering when it will get them? Does anyone have any idea? I'm not > talking about stable keywords, just ~. ;-) > Just as a datapoint, my main dev system is ~80% stable and has been updating with gcc-6 since beginning of february; no probl

Getting gcc-6 keyworded (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-6.x status inquiry)

2017-05-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
OK since a) nobody from toolchain responds here, b) a lot of people are in favour of doing this, but c) noone wants to do it himself, and d) I dont have the time to do all the research I deem necessary to do it myself, let's harness the power of the developer community. https://wiki.gento

Re: Getting gcc-6 keyworded (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-6.x status inquiry)

2017-05-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 4. Mai 2017, 23:32:19 CEST schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > OK since > > a) nobody from toolchain responds here, > b) a lot of people are in favour of doing this, but > c) noone wants to do it himself, and Forget this. William already did it. YAY!!! -- Andreas K

[gentoo-dev] arches.desc & GLEP 72 (was: Re: [gentoo-project] Items for Council Agenda, May 14)

2017-05-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 29. April 2017, 19:00:34 CEST schrieb Anthony G. Basile: > Hi everyone, > > The Gentoo Council will be meeting in two weeks. If anyone has any > issues we need to discuss, please let me know and I'll put it on the > agenda. Thanks. I've converted the arches.desc proposal into a GLEP

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 7. Mai 2017, 22:24:35 CEST schrieb Michał Górny: > > > Anyhow, I formally request the Council to vote on dropping these archs > > to unstable/exp profiles for the next Council meeting, explicitly > > overriding any arch concerns that are likely to awake now and going to > > be running a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 8. Mai 2017, 12:49:32 CEST schrieb Mikle Kolyada: > > Against. Do not touch things you are not working on, council has already > dropped m68k s390 and sh to exp few years ago. Now we have a big mess > there and only, while ia64 sparc and co have slow but progress and > mature enough stab

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > I have not seen the draft of proper reverting these arches to exp or > dev, if it will be like sh or s390, better kill the horse like debian > did to alpha and hppa, without riding it. The current state of sh and s390 happened because vapier suggested the profiles should become "exp". My o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dropping ia64/ppc/sparc profiles to dev/exp

2017-05-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 8. Mai 2017, 21:08:26 CEST schrieb Mikle Kolyada: > > The easiest solution is for the arch team to remove keywords until they > > have a reasonable response time again. And if the arch team doesn't do > > that by itself, well, ... > > > > Having one-man teams block everybody else hurts

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: GCC 6 defaults to USE="pie ssp"

2017-05-09 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2017, 00:47:30 CEST schrieb Alexis Ballier: > On Tue, 9 May 2017 23:18:20 +0200 Hanno Böck wrote: > > I really think it's about time that pie becomes the default in Gentoo. > > For a transition we can probably build everything with -fPIE but not > link with -pie. If we want t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: GCC 6 defaults to USE="pie ssp"

2017-05-09 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 9. Mai 2017, 22:10:21 CEST schrieb Alexis Ballier: > > Do you realize that this breaks linking against about any static lib > ever built before upgrading ? And I'm not even considering people > toggling the flag. Toggling the flag is definitely bad. So it should be either on or off.

New profiles for default-pie transition (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News item: GCC 6 defaults to USE="pie ssp", v2)

2017-05-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2017, 13:58:56 CEST schrieb Dirkjan Ochtman: > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > > Sounds like a reasonable action plan. The consequences of such a change > > definitely seems to be sufficiently high to merit a proper migration > > plan which do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] News item: GCC 6 defaults to USE="pie ssp"

2017-05-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2017, 15:31:13 CEST schrieb James Le Cuirot: > On Wed, 10 May 2017 08:20:32 -0500 > > Matthias Maier wrote: > > On Wed, May 10, 2017, at 02:28 CDT, Martin Vaeth > > > > wrote: > > > I am using gcc-6 since ages and tried to run a desktop with default > > > pie for quite a wh

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