On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:48:54 +0100 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:15 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > However, it's been a long-standing general practise that if there > > are no deps in the tree older than what is necessary for a package, > > that package doesn't need to have a minimum version on the > > dependency atom. As such, issues similar to this are probably lying > > in wait all other the place in the tree. > > this is a common misconception: ebuilds must have min. deps matching > their requirements (exactly because of this problem) > > it can be fixed on the user side by 'emerge -uDN world' meanwhile but > this doesn't mean the ebuild doesn't have a bug, even if minor > > Alexis. When I started contributing via sunrise, I've been adding the minimal versions of dependencies as declared by upstream but I met with very strict enforcement of the policy to not specify minimal version if all the ones in current tree satisfies. Is it documented somewhere or is it just unwritten consensus? What I see is only Ebuild Policy [1e] which doesn't deal with this. .. [1e] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 --- Jan Matějka | Gentoo Developer https://gentoo.org | Gentoo Linux GPG: A33E F5BC A9F6 DAFD 2021 6FB6 3EBF D45B EEB6 CA8B
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