[gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib incompatible with upstream. As a result, a lot of packages stopped building.

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2011 10:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers,

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that deals with it was locked from public view: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only? Going over the contents I dont see any. (And we've been bickering in far worse

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Freitag 23 September 2011 23:54:09 Markos Chandras wrote: Why are you discussing this in the -dev ML since there is already an open bug about this? This is clearly a problem(if any) with the zlib packages + maintainer. We ( as individual devs ) can't do much. If you want to push this

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him after setting the group restriction. That's not a very nice thing to do. However, Nikos didn't behave nicely either, so I don't quite blame

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2011 11:18 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: On Freitag 23 September 2011 23:54:09 Markos Chandras wrote: Why are you discussing this in the -dev ML since there is already an open bug about this? This is clearly a problem(if any) with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree.  The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him after setting the group restriction. That's not a very nice

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 19:30:15 Alec Warner wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him after setting the

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 18:02:50 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that deals with it was locked from public view: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only? Going

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 17:44:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib incompatible