With nelchael's retirement I (with backup from djc) will take over the maintenance of mercurial.eclass. As one of the first things I would like to change the default value of EHG_REVISION.
EHG_REVISION defines the revision/branch/tag to be checkout in src_unpack. The current default is "tip", which identifies the most recent revision. This can lead to unwanted branch changes (see <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380947#c16>) as the branch in which tip resides is not fixed. The new default should be "default", which is mercurial's default name for the main branch. Looking at the packages using mercurial.eclass (<http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eclass-usage/mercurial.txt>) the above change shouldn't cause any problems (some packages already use EHG_REVISION="default" to avoid branch changes), but I will wait another week before committing the change. -- Christoph Junghans http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/
