On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:03:53 +0200 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 22:27 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > imagine a Python application "monty" with the following requirements > > listed in setup.py: > > > > install_requires=[ > > 'ham>=1.0', > > 'spam>=2.0', > > 'eggs>=1.5' > > ] > > > > If I want to add "monty" as a new Gentoo package, and if none of > > "ham", "spam" and "eggs" are so far available as Gentoo packages, > > what is the recommended way of handling this situation? > > I presume you want to proxy-maintain all of those packages. > > > > > 1. Create one pull request that contains separate commits for adding > > each of the four Python packages? > > This one. We generally find it easier when we see the big picture > in one place. > > By the way, there's gentoo-proxy-maint@ ml for this kind of questions. > Also, it is best to state that these new pkgs are a depencency of "monty" in their commit messages. It can be clearer as to why these are in the tree if "monty" drops them as a dependency later and there are no other reverse deps for them in the tree. ie: app-foo/ham: New pkg, depencency of app-foo/monty-1.2.3
