Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: stable-bot is down. Temporary? Forever? Can we have a contacts page for it?

2019-10-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > > > Is it appropriate to list services that are not managed by infra on this > > page? > > Yes, in the 'External-run' section of the page. I'll add a stub for > stable-bot now that we have some more details. In any case, since many people *do* rely on it, maybe we should declare it official

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/NetxAP

2019-10-15 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Hüttel (2019-10-15) # Fails self-tests badly, no revdeps, upstream doesnt care # since 1999. Removal in 30 days. Bug 641530. dev-perl/NetxAP -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) signature.asc Descript

[gentoo-dev] last rites: perl-app.eclass

2019-10-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# @DEAD # This eclass is dead and all its consumers have been removed from # the tree. # Please use perl-module.eclass if you need phase functions, and # perl-functions.eclass if you don't. # In overlays, perl-app.eclass usage can be replaced by # perl-module.eclass without further changes. # Bug 6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Do (old-ish) Portage QA checks comprise policy?

2019-11-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > TL;DR: If a QA check is enforced by Portage for a reasonably long time, > > does it constitute policy? Or can it be changed unilaterally by Portage > > team? > To avoid these sorts of questions in the future, [snip since offtopic] > In this case, whether or not this is "policy" is beside th

Re: [gentoo-dev] unsanctioned python 2.7 crusade

2019-12-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
How about adding yourself as maintainer then? :) Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 14:42:59 CET schrieb Jason A. Donenfeld: > Hi, > > Aaron has marked tons of important and useful Python 2.7 packages for > removal: > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d85e166dd999c354a5346fb >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] package.deprecated: Create initial template

2019-12-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019, 17:09:57 CET schrieb Michał Górny: [...] > +# This file specifies packages that are considered deprecated (but not > +# masked yet). It will trigger pkgcheck warnings whenever other > +# packages depend on them. Just saying, this is an awesome functionality, and w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] install-qa-check.d: allow acct-user home directories under /home.

2020-01-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 20. Januar 2020, 04:43:50 CET schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > In rare cases, a system user will need a real home directory to store > per-user configuration data and/or be accessed interactively by a > human being. In those cases, /home/${username} is an appropriate place > for the user's ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sci-visualization/gwyddion

2020-01-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2020, 00:49:08 CET schrieb David Seifert: > # David Seifert (2020-01-21) > # No sign of py3 port, depends on EOL pygtk and gtkglext. > # Many open bugs, no revdeps. > # Bug #443088, #582454, #598682, #623314. Removal in 30 days. > sci-visualization/gwyddion Urgh. Way too u

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-office/calcurse/

2020-03-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Reverted [QA]. For reasons see below. Am Dienstag, 10. März 2020, 12:28:25 CET schrieb Patrice Clement: > commit: 34217564ddc5cd46762ffdaeb217aabd905dec6a > Author: Patrice Clement gentoo org> > AuthorDate: Tue Mar 10 10:32:00 2020 + > Commit: Patrice Clement gentoo org> > Comm

[gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-office/calcurse/

2020-03-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Someone needs to grow up here. -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- Betreff: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-office/calcurse/ Datum: Mittwoch, 11. März 2020, 09:24:16 CET Von: Patrice Clement An: gentoo-comm...@lists.gentoo.org commit: 81a65d7da5b5e8b9e48323d

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-office/calcurse/

2020-03-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 12. März 2020, 19:44:15 CET schrieb Alec Warner: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:54 AM Andreas K. Huettel > > wrote: > > Someone needs to grow up here. > > Meh, to me (someone who can't commit to ::gentoo) I have a few concerns > here. First, I don

Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-office/calcurse/

2020-03-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag, 12. März 2020, 20:23:56 CET schrieb Michał Górny: > On Thu, 2020-03-12 at 11:44 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:54 AM Andreas K. Huettel > > > > wrote: > > > Someone needs to grow up here. > > > > Meh, to me (some

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Discontinuing (more-than-absolutely-minimal) Python support for non-x86 arches

2020-03-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > > > https://github.com/zmedico/portage/compare/master...zmedico:drobbins-track > > -keywords?expand=1 > That's kind of what ALLARCHES is for although IIRC the rules state that > packages should still be initially keyworded in the usual way. Other > distros do "noarch" though so the idea isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Discontinuing (more-than-absolutely-minimal) Python support for non-x86 arches

2020-03-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> Perhaps we could write a tool that > looks up newer versions of installed ebuilds that have dropped keywords > for a given arch and report which dependencies also need keywording. I > guess we don't have something like that? True, keeping track of long-running stable requests with complicated li

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword

2020-03-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2020, 19:40:57 CET schrieb William Hubbs: > There would be no need to cc all arches on the bug, just make noarch@g.o > an alias that emails to all arch teams. We might as well just make an allarches@... alias. -- Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword

2020-03-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> So, my question is, why can't we add a noarch/~noarch keyword and see > how things go? If it gets abused we can always nuke it later. I'm pretty sure we already discussed this in very much detail in the past at least once, and came to the conclusion that there are problems with that approach.

Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un-ization, v2

2014-12-09 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ing kde over kde Cheers, Andreas PS. This is a mere syntactical point, and not taking side in any way for/against herds. Separate mail. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml un-ization, v2

2014-12-09 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
postgresql team I still have to figure out how their alias looks like or find a package that they maintain first.) Why not instead come up with a new set of rules (and maybe new tags) that simplify? As example, scratch , add with a 1:1 transformation of argument to mail address. As example, always

[gentoo-dev] Perl team is dropping some packages

2014-12-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ng already have an additional maintainer, who will become sole maintainer then: dev-db/bucardo media-gfx/galleryadd media-libs/exiftool net-dialup/sendpage net-mail/mhonarc net-misc/arpsponge sci-biology/GBrowse sci-visualization/circos sys-apps/ack www-apps/Apache-Gallery Cheers, Andreas --

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ilized, in an archiving sense, since in the meantime random eclass settings were flipped around.) +1 for an "archive overlay" -- 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: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Montag, 22. Dezember 2014, 17:20:31 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 17:11:01 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > [...] > > > (On a related note, do we really need gcc 2.95.3-r10, 3.3.6-r1, 3.4.6-r2, > > 4.0.4, 4.1.2, 4.2.4-r1, 4.3.6-r1, 4.4.7, 4.5.1-r1, 4.5.2

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ng things it doesn't mesh with > well. That's fine we have to glue things together correctly. Throwing > stuff away when it doesn't mesh is not fine when its something good. Please explain the specific connection of this problem with multilib. (Shouldn't you usually use

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: glibc versions prior to 2.19-r1

2014-12-24 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
d to > keep that chain 4.8 -> 4.7 -> 4.6 ... -> 3.3 going. True, that's a valid point for keeping a "stepladder" of old gcc versions down to the earliest version that you want to keep. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-dev] last rites: app-office/imposter

2014-12-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Huettel (30 Dec 2014) # Upstream dead since 2005, does not build, bug 515780 # Masked for removal in 30 days app-office/imposter -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ signature.asc Description: This is a

[gentoo-dev] last rites: www-client/netsurf media-gfx/photoprint media-gfx/rawstudio

2014-12-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Huettel (30 Dec 2014) # media-libs/lcms:0 is unmaintained and has unspecified severe security # issues, bug 526642. Its reverse dependencies will be removed in 30days. www-client/netsurf media-gfx/photoprint media-gfx/rawstudio Feel free to patch (either disable lcms or use lcms:2

[gentoo-dev] last rites: sci-libs/libecwj2

2014-12-31 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
# Andreas K. Huettel (30 Dec 2014) # media-libs/lcms:0 is unmaintained and has unspecified severe security # issues, bug 526642. Its reverse dependencies will be removed in 30days. sci-libs/libecwj2 -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] First release of Gentoo Keys

2015-01-13 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
001 was a milestone but the technology in this case fundamentally didn't scale. So, while there certainly have been advances, they aren't directly based on it, but on completely different experimental approaches. http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~martinisgroup/ If there's any place to look

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving CPU flags into USE_EXPAND

2015-01-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
and what are the specifics? I suspect "use flags that only switch CFLAGS etc" are forbidden, "useflags that enable assembler code etc" are allowed? -- 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: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/libuv: libuv-1.2.1.ebuild ChangeLog

2015-01-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
;? I see absolutely no need to invoke any QA privileges here, and it also wasn't done when doing the bump. So the only QA team "involvment" would be that it's expected of members of privileged teams to be sensitive about doing things by the book. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Things one could be upset about

2015-01-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
eOS one). Fix: Next year, start getting annoyed in time and annoy some fellow Europeans. :] [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libusbhp/ChangeLog?hideattic=0&view=log -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFCv2: USE=avcodec (+ USE=ffmpeg/libav)

2015-01-20 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
media-video/libav:= ) > ) > postproc? ( > ffmpeg? ( media-video/ffmpeg:= ) > libav? ( media-libs/libpostproc:= ) > )" > REQUIRED_USE=" > avcodec? ( ^^ ( ffmpeg libav ) ) > postproc? ( ^^ ( ffmpeg libav ) ) >

[gentoo-dev] Office team needs developer help

2015-01-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Thanks! Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] ffmpeg vs libav choice of default

2015-02-04 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
e any deterministic way to rebuild reverse deps when needed. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in games-board/stockfish: stockfish-6.ebuild metadata.xml Manifest ChangeLog

2015-02-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
oesn't look defunct to me. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer perl, office, comrel, council

[gentoo-dev] vmware team needs help

2015-02-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
( We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user contributions. The only real alternative is to treeclean and tell people to use the bundled installer. No idea how well this works. Talk to me if interested... Best, Andreas -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer perl, o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2015, 16:00:46 schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: > > References: > [PHABRICATOR] http://phabricator.org Let me point at the other pink elephant in the room. https://about.gitlab.com/ -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2015, 15:38:12 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 13/02/15 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > We have an overlay that can be used and is used for user contributions. > > Any plans to move it to github so we can fork and send pull requests? Any plans to take

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: vmware team needs help

2015-02-15 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2015, 18:19:22 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 13/02/15 00:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > * sorting out the screwed-up bundled library situation > > VMware seems to bundle everything they need. Currently, revdep-rebuild > triggers false positives for

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/libusbhp: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml

2015-02-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > even then, deleting an ebuild purely due to different copyright is > complete bs. No. Tree policy. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer perl, office, comrel, council

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/libusbhp: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml

2015-02-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
been around forever doesnt mean you can break the rules that everyone else is supposed to follow. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer perl, office, comrel, council

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/libusbhp: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml

2015-02-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
his like everyone else and starting a discussion about it? You know, like, talking to people? Just silently committing stuff that goes against standing rules because you disagree with the rules is not the way to go. It's childish and immature. (Remember the ChangeLogs?) -- Andreas K.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Making more repoman checks fatal

2015-02-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
uild.notadded", > "ebuild.nesteddie", > "DESCRIPTION.toolong", > "RESTRICT.invalid", > "ebuild.minorsyn", > "ebuild.badheader", > "metadata.warning", > "LIVEVCS.stable", > "LIVEVCS.unmasked", > Yes please. And in addition "dependency.perlcore" -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer perl, office, comrel, council

Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-libs/libusbhp: ChangeLog Manifest libusbhp-1.0.2.ebuild metadata.xml

2015-02-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
just only require the correct license statement and leave all copyright statements as they are in whatever form? (I mean, committing from Germany where only *natural* persons can be entitled to copyright, this is silly anyway...) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer perl, office, comrel, council

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Policies for games dirs, new group "gamestat" for sgid binaries

2015-02-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
s to be a recurring problem, not everyone is equally prone to fill our mailboxes) # of commits 1/12/2014 - 7/2/2015 in gentoo-x86 15 Julian Ospald 148 Alfredo Tupone 251 Michael Sterrett -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Service relaunch: archives.gentoo.org

2015-02-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
i, for his development of this project. Looks great and very useful, thanks a lot! -- 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] ALLARCHES bugzilla keyword for stabilization requests

2015-03-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
f possible close the bug appropriately. This will hopefully lighten the load on arch teams. Whether to use this keyword is the decision of the package maintainer; obviously it should only be used where that is safe to do. Cheers, Andreas - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux develop

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Document policy of not relying on implicit eclass inherits]

2015-03-13 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ons.eclass are used in many KDE ebuilds, which *all* inherit it indirectly via f.ex. kde4- base.eclass. Manually adding an inherit to kde4-functions doesnt gain us anything there except redundancy. So, kde4-base.eclass could/should be able to declare somehow "everything from kde4-funct

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
in project") alternatively a separate namespace, but how to name it? cheers, andreas - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
space or no namespace, if going for a separate namespace it might > allow for sub-trees down the road, etc... Correct, sorry, I completely over-read that. No namespace, top level would really be best. We only have one main tree!!! - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] multilib amd64 news item for review

2015-03-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
gt; This will enable some possibly-unwanted 64-bit software, e.g. 64-bit > Windows support in wine. > errhm... I guess this needs an explanation. Why is this not equivalent? Sounds like a bug to me. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www

Re: [gentoo-dev] Restoring from the Attic?

2015-03-21 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
e CVS Tutorial doesn't have anything on this specific > operation. > > Thanks!, > > Been there done that. In the package dir, just do cvs add something-x.y.ebuild (while the ebuild file is missing) and it magically reappears. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux de

Re: [gentoo-dev] Naming of repositories: gento-x86 edition, bike shedding wanted

2015-03-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
gentoo <<-- our main tree repo/proj/kde repo/proj/perl-overlay repo/dev/dilfridge Everything else stays where it is, eg., data/glsa proj/sandbox proj/portage ... - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.ak

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: zsh completions -- optional or mandatory?

2015-03-29 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
erall agreed policy for small add-on files. (The only real alternative would be to finally, please, please, please introduce IUSE_RUNTIME. Which just got booted from EAPI=6 again.) - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.ak

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/Eidetic app-admin/rackview

2015-04-02 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Andreas K. Huettel (2 Apr 2015) # Ancient, dead upstream. File collisions (bug 535700) # and build failures (bug 277670). Masked for removal in # 30 days. dev-perl/Eidetic app-admin/rackview - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-05 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > My preferred solution would be > create a revbump that solely amends (R)DEPEND, leaving the KEYWORDS > exactly as they are. Sounds good to me (as long as repoman agrees :). - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@g

[gentoo-dev] last rites: app-laptop/gtkpbbuttons

2015-04-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
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[gentoo-dev] last rites: app-laptop/gkrellm-pmu

2015-04-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Andreas K. Huettel http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVJEYzXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ0RkJDMzI0NjNBOTIwMDY5MTQ2NkMzNDBF

[gentoo-dev] last rites: media-libs/sk1libs and media-gfx/uniconvw

2015-04-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Andreas K. Huettel (11 Apr 2015) # media-libs/lcms:0 has serious security issues, is unmaintained # and will be removed in 30 days, see bug 526642 # With it we remove its last reverse dependencies, # media-libs/sk1libs and media-gfx/uniconvw

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: media-libs/sk1libs and media-gfx/uniconvw

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Samstag, 11. April 2015, 00:27:49 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > > # Andreas K. Huettel (11 Apr 2015) > # media-libs/lcms:0 has serious security issues, is unmaintained > # and will be removed in 30 days, see bug 526642 > # With i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a generic solution to non-USE-conditional circular deps

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
guess we need a new flag. Does > > anyone have suggestions how to name it? > > Incidentally, if those were all migrated to USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN, the dire > warnings wouldn't need to be so visible... Now if only anyone would remember what these were intended for? Maybe we'

[gentoo-dev] Hey arch teams, we need your input!

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
your voice heard. Noone wants to overrule an active team. Cheers, Andreas PS. I've ommitted amd64, hppa, and arm from the manual CC list because these are the stable arches I'm definitely not worried about. Obviously feedback is appreciated anyway. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: media-libs/sk1libs and media-gfx/uniconvw

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Next try, message updated. # Andreas K. Huettel # media-libs/lcms:0 has serious security issues, is unmaintained # and will be removed soon, see bug 526642 # Here we remove its last unconditional/unported reverse dependencies, # media-libs/sk1libs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
herwise, Pacho already mentioned the most important page. https://www.gentoo.org/get-involved/become-developer/ Cheers, Andreas - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
s no QA team that kicks people doing silly eclass changes. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVMXauXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Becoming a Gentoo developer?

2015-04-17 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
read this message. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVMXchXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ0RkJDMzI0NjNBOTI

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Indention in metadata.xml

2015-06-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
by choosing > the wrong. > > The two options which are already suggested are > > * 2 spaces > * single tab > > So what should it be? How about the unicode character for a right-aligned tab, together with the nonbreaking half-width space?    --

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ban EAPI 1

2015-06-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
quence that repoman would refuse to commit packages > containing such ebuilds. AFAICS there would be no impact on users. > I was really looking forward to committing that :))) Do it!!! - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -B

[gentoo-dev] (semi) last rites: several unused perl-core packages

2015-06-13 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Andreas K. Huettel (13 June 2016) # The following perl-core packages are not required at the moment to # satisfy any dependencies (the bundled version of the module in # dev-lang/perl is always newer). They will be removed in 30days # (but may

[gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete Perl virtuals virtual/perl-CGI virtual/perl-Module-Build virtual/perl-Module-Pluggable

2015-06-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Andreas K. Huettel (14 Jun 2015) # The CGI, Module::Build, and Module::Pluggable modules have been # removed from the core Perl distribution and as package now reside # in the dev-perl category. This means the corresponding virtuals # are not

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete Perl virtuals virtual/perl-CGI virtual/perl-Module-Build virtual/perl-Module-Pluggable

2015-06-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sonntag, 14. Juni 2015, 17:19:11 schrieb Philip Webb: > 150614 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > # * If you have any of these virtuals installed, uninstall > > # (depclean) them. > > # * If the virtuals are required by some ove

Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: obsolete virtual/perl-Module-Build

2015-06-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ata (dependencies) stored in the VDB.) Maybe this works better if you add a -D to the emerge call? I have no experience with --changed-deps, since I've been running dynamic-deps all the time. Cheers, Andreas - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) di

Re: [gentoo-dev] Git Migration: launch plan & schedule (2015/Aug/08-09)

2015-07-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
rors carry up-to-date changelogs again > > I've allocated time for an 8 hour freeze, but hope to be completed much > sooner than that. That's excellent news- thanks a lot for your work! - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: how to add a new package with git?

2015-09-07 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
to push anything to git. TL;DR: this is something that only infra needs to care about. The fact that every dev sees it all the time leads to no end of pointless irritation. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhu

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 12. September 2015, 15:12:08 schrieb Justin Lecher (jlec): > Hi, > > I would like to discuss the pro and cons of usage of symlinks in the > tree, which are possible now as we aren't bound to CVS anymore > Please please just ban them completely. -- Andreas K.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFI: A better workflow for github pull requests

2015-09-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ter is only at 86 so far.) Of the currently open 18 PR's most have 1-2 comments, only two more than 10 comments. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFI: A better workflow for github pull requests

2015-09-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
isting bug? After all this sounds like normal procedure (bug exists, fix is prepared, ...) - - How should assignment / wrangling be handled in case a bug is newly generated from Github? - - Who's going to do the integration work? :P - - What do our BZ admins say about it? - -- Andreas K.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage.

2015-09-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
that any search/replace should be safe, given something has to be fixed. (I haven't followed the esoteric part of the discussion.) (Unless someone insists on a revision bump for each dependency modification - which is where I'd like to reply with an emphatic "Do it yourself then.&quo

[gentoo-dev] Dynamic dependencies

2015-09-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Accepted unanimously. Since there seems to be interest in the Portage team to go ahead with that plan, I'd like to ask about the tree policies and the handling of eclasses and virtuals. I guess we'd appreciate this as a prerequisite for being able to give the plan future council

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

2015-09-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ontributor lists- if there is a way to extract them from the wiki, do it, otherwise let the wiki get them from somewhere else f) (mopping up) remove herds.xml for good questions? - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuett

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

2015-09-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mittwoch, 16. September 2015, 23:43:43 schrieb Matthew Thode: > > Herds are groups of developers that can then be mapped to a package. > Heh. See? :) - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

2015-09-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Freitag, 18. September 2015, 06:49:07 schrieb Robin H. Johnson: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > a) Disallow the term "herd". Noone uses it correctly anyway. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

2015-09-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
o gets added to the alias and listed on the project page in a prominent place * or fix GLEP39 Both is likely doable. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJV/JBqXxS

[gentoo-dev] last rites: app-emulation/vmware-view-open-client

2015-09-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Andreas K. Huettel (27 Sep 2015) # Dead upstream, buggy, effectively unmaintained. Removal # in 30 days. Bug 507300 app-emulation/vmware-view-open-client - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: /

2015-10-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Which I tried several times, but git steadfast refused to sign the commit properly. Maybe a new bug somewhere? - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQI

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: dev-libs/libgit2/

2015-10-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> Is this a policy > > It is undocumented policy. Perl team has the undocumented policy to keep deps in the same order as the upstream META.json declaration file, to ease maintenance. Just fyi. - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
2.so.0. For binary compatibility, provides > libpng15.so.15. Represent ABI compatibility for > libpng.so. > > For packages like x11-libs/wxGTK one could write: > > Major versions. > +1 -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: sci-geosciences/grass/, sci-geosciences/grass/files/

2015-10-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
before pushing. Heh. This is fallout since the DEPENDENCY.BADMASKED message has been deactivated is repoman. Seems like the ebuild was committed with no errors from repoman first (since all sci-geosciences/grass was pmasked) and then the mask limited to =6, exposing the breakage. - -- A

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] EAPI 6 draft for review

2015-10-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
at a random level of your source tree. Happened to me already. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] EAPI 6 draft for review

2015-10-19 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ecial case too, please? -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog - Infra Response

2015-11-08 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ngeLog stopping in 2015 and > ChangeLog.git starting from this date: Having ChangeLog-2015 from CVS > still carries partial information on the timeline. > > > Alexis. +1 - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-perl/Coro and reverse dependencies

2015-11-13 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-Simple dev-perl/Net-IMAP-Simple-SSL - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJWRoYBXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ul if you could point out what exactly *didn't* work in the past, instead of just making big words and large noise here. After all that's exactly the procedure that has been used for the last EAPI introductions. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
to it (don't forget to use a random combination of eclasses, like perl-module, python-r1, kde4-base ...), update your system and check for all possible resolver oddities... Too much work? Tough. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-18 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
tree (or at > least all the rdeps) yourself. - -> good usecase for autorepoman (hi Patrick) or the github QA checks after adding some extra code in both cases - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice) dilfri...@gentoo.org http://ww

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 6 portage is out!

2015-11-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
is is a fully workable combination. And no I dont really worry about EAPI=6, since as far as I can remember portage outputs a fat message "Masked by EAPI" once a package with EAPI too new for portage is required. [Most of my systems also run ~arch portage by default. Rarely any p

[gentoo-dev] New arches??

2015-11-26 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, just curious, where did "riscv" come from (and nios2, but that seem's to have been around for longer...) Cheers - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGI

[gentoo-dev] Introducing perl-functions.eclass

2015-11-27 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
or completeness. Cheers, Andreas - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http://www.akhuettel.de/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.1 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJWWPSJXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ0RkJDMzI0NjNBOTIwM

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: automatically mailing people on pkgcheck problems with their packages

2015-12-06 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
t; Is the testing performed per-push rather than per-commit? Either way, I > > would like to get a notification that something broke, even if it wasn't > > my commit at fault. Just change the word "blame" to "alert" so no one > > feels slandered. > > It is d

[gentoo-dev] perl-module.eclass EAPI=6 support

2015-12-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
rite of the test phase for EAPI=6. Adds options to control test verbosity and switch network tests (something that might or might not work depending on upstream cooperativity). 0015-dev-perl-CGI-Add-EAPI-6-test-ebuild.patch * Example ebuild... - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-perl/YAML-Parser-Syck

2015-12-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 # Andreas K. Huettel (11 Dec 2015) # Ancient, smells funny, disowned by upstream, needs syck # Masked for removal in 30 days, bug 565012 dev-perl/YAML-Parser-Syck - -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer dilfri...@gentoo.org http

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