On Mon, 7 May 2018 13:38:47 -0700 Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > If there's a way to have repoman alert developers to deprecated > dependencies in the same way we handle deprecated eclasses, I'd like > to know about it. > > Currently there is not. Thinking out loud... It would mean parsing package.mask to generate the list filtering out those with "masked for removal", from other general mask reasons, but even that is not consistent. from another email in today's batch... (not to pick on this one, was just a lucky coincidence) eg: Subject: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: old, ruby23-only, slots of various ruby packages # Hans de Graaff <gra...@gentoo.org> (7 May 2018) # Old slots that are ruby23-only and no longer maintained # upstream, and that do not have packages depend on them. # Migrate to newer slot of the same package. Perhaps we would need to add a separate last-rites.mask list that the package manager merges internally as part of the .mask stack. That would make just one file to load without a need for filtering. A separate list might also be beneficial for the undertakers and any tooling for its automation. (I am not familiar with any of that tooling) I would then suggest the dependency depth check to default to one (or two) so as to not slow things down drastically. Perhaps a Q/A check report to scan the whole tree on a weekly basis. But that would also require PMS to be updated for the new file, which means a council vote... -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
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