Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/otrs: needs new maintainer

2015-09-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:13:34PM +0200, hasufell wrote: >> On 09/15/2015 02:00 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: >> > If you have interest in this package then you can do one or more of: >> > * become a Gentoo developer (ha-ha)

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

2015-09-15 Thread konsolebox
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:26 PM, konsolebox wrote: > Subslots are only applicable when creating ebuilds. Sorry I have to correct this. They are also applicable to other areas but not always sensible to use.

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

2015-09-15 Thread konsolebox
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Manuel Rüger wrote: > Please don't add any more syntactic sugar to dependency strings. > People might become confused about stuff like this: > > =cat/foo-1.3.1_rc3_p20130829-r42+[!a=,!b?,c(+)]:3= =cat/foo-xyz+ is only one of the forms (we can

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

2015-09-15 Thread konsolebox
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > On 9/14/15 9:13 AM, konsolebox wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. >> wrote: >>> On 9/14/15 6:35 AM, konsolebox wrote: Many times we need to match packages like

[gentoo-dev] www-apps/otrs: needs new maintainer

2015-09-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I contacted Robin today asking for how to proceed here, he told me to post here. tl;dr -> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506052 shows that * the former dev has removed himself as maintainer * the package is rather outdated now in portage * there are some

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

2015-09-15 Thread konsolebox
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 09/14/2015 06:35 AM, konsolebox wrote: >> So my suggestion is to add ~> as another operator. With it we can >> have an expression like '~>pkg-1.0.2a' and it

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

2015-09-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, konsolebox wrote: > Here are my issues if we try to modify =* and not add another operator: > 1) We'll completely abandon having an operator that matches the > remaining parts of a version number for good: =cat/foo-5.2015* would > no longer work. If you look at the

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

2015-09-15 Thread konsolebox
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > We consider 5.01 and 5.010 as equal versions. And do we still plan to keep them equal when we fix =*? Would that mean 5.1 is the same as 5.10? That's clearly illegal to what most versioning schemes packages follow

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

2015-09-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, konsolebox wrote: >> We consider 5.01 and 5.010 as equal versions. > And do we still plan to keep them equal when we fix =*? Yes. > Would that mean 5.1 is the same as 5.10? No. RTFPMS, all the rules for version comparison are there:

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

2015-09-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> We consider 5.01 and 5.010 as equal versions. >> And do we still plan to keep them equal when we fix =*? > Yes. >> Would that mean 5.1 is the same as 5.10? > No. > RTFPMS, all the rules for version comparison are there: >

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

2015-09-15 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:54:59 +0800 konsolebox wrote: > Would that mean 5.1 is the same as 5.10? That's clearly illegal to > what most versioning schemes packages follow including the semantic > versioning (http://semver.org/). Semantic versioning is a new fad. Certain

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/otrs: needs new maintainer

2015-09-15 Thread hasufell
On 09/15/2015 02:00 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > If you have interest in this package then you can do one or more of: > > * become a Gentoo developer (ha-ha) hmm > * maintain the ebuild by proxy (find a Gentoo developer to proxy you) maybe, but not necessary for drive-by contributions > *

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/otrs: needs new maintainer

2015-09-15 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:13:34PM +0200, hasufell wrote: > On 09/15/2015 02:00 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: > > If you have interest in this package then you can do one or more of: > > * become a Gentoo developer (ha-ha) > hmm For background, SGW did work on becoming a developer once before, but he

[gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 90 bugs

2015-09-15 Thread Alex Alexander
Our bug queue has 90 bugs! If you have some spare time, please help assign/sort a few bugs. To view the bug queue, click here: http://bit.ly/m8PQS5 Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/otrs: needs new maintainer

2015-09-15 Thread Peter Stuge
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > * the former dev has removed himself as maintainer > * the package is rather outdated now in portage > * there are some ebuilds already which could be considered to be added > (at least as unstable, sure) > > pls advise, If you have interest in this package then you

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: CCP4 suite

2015-09-15 Thread Justin (jlec)
I am sorry, but due to lack in manpower Gentoo will drop full support of ccp4. Please use upstream binary installer to get the latest version. justin +# Justin Lecher (15 Sep 2015) +# Outdated and multiple bugs +# Use upstream installer for up to version +dev-libs/libjwc_c