Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Sunday 14 of March 2010 06:09:44 James Cloos wrote: > > "BdG" == Ben de Groot writes: > BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. > > Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base. > > Leaving them in does not. But leaving them broken and unmaintained in ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reorganizing handling of target specific profiles (Was: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review)

2010-03-13 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 02:02:46AM +0200, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 13:16 -0800, Brian Harring wrote: > > While I agree in principle within mixins, no one here is discussing > > the QA affect of it- right now we can do visibility scans of > > combinations of gnome + amd64 + 201

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread James Cloos
> "BdG" == Ben de Groot writes: BdG> Abandoned packages do not belong in the portage tree. Nonsense. That attitude only servers to harm the user base. Leaving them in does not. -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reorganizing handling of target specific profiles (Was: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review)

2010-03-13 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 13:16 -0800, Brian Harring wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:40:00PM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > > mån 2010-03-08 klockan 19:13 +0200 skrev Mart Raudsepp: > > > > > Instead I think we should be improving "eselect profile" to support > > > multiple inheriting /etc/make

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review

2010-03-13 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 11:48 +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > I found your proposal about mixing profiles awesome, and I am willing to work > on this. In fact, I'm going to raise the issue on KDE's meeting this Thursday > at 20:00 UTC. Any freedesktop team members will be welcome there. But I'm n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review

2010-03-13 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 16:47 +0100, Ben de Groot wrote: > > Even so, if we choose not to implement the split now, there are > problems that need addressing in the current situation. The Qt team > finds the mysql dependency that was added to the desktop profile > three months ago (see bug #291996) u

[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-13 Thread Duncan
Samuli Suominen posted on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:21:52 +0200 as excerpted: > On 03/13/2010 07:07 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> When a bug is marked as fixed it doesn't show up in searches developers >> use so it's a matter of who reads the email and acts upon it. I don't >> see why maintainers would be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reorganizing handling of target specific profiles (Was: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review)

2010-03-13 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 11:40:00PM +0100, Peter Hjalmarsson wrote: > mån 2010-03-08 klockan 19:13 +0200 skrev Mart Raudsepp: > > > Instead I think we should be improving "eselect profile" to support > > multiple inheriting /etc/make.profile files in a user friendly fashion, > > and in the end remo

Re: [gentoo-dev] eqawarn for main tree

2010-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/12/2010 11:27 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 03/12/2010 11:39 AM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> In eclasses there's often use for outputting QA warnings for ebuild >> authors (at least in java and python could immediately make use of >> this). Currently Portage has eqawarn available but it's considered

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/13/2010 07:21 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 03/13/2010 07:07 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: >> When a bug is marked as fixed it doesn't show up in searches developers >> use so it's a matter of who reads the email and acts upon it. I don't >> see why maintainers would be any more likely to act tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/13/2010 07:07 PM, Petteri Räty wrote: > When a bug is marked as fixed it doesn't show up in searches developers > use so it's a matter of who reads the email and acts upon it. I don't > see why maintainers would be any more likely to act than an arch team > comprised of multiple people in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/12/2010 11:47 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > Since all the arch team does is stabilize or keyword, the maintainer > needs to know if other issues come up with the bug after it is closed. > The maintainer is the reporter or in Cc. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digit

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-13 Thread Petteri Räty
On 03/12/2010 10:11 PM, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:18:03 +0200, Petteri Räty > wrote: >> There seems to be two different schools on who to assign a keywording >> bug with only a single arch. I have myself assigned it to the arch in >> question but there's a difference of opini

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-fs/btrfs

2010-03-13 Thread Joe Peterson
# Joe Peterson (13 Mar 2010) # Old, unmainted standalone kernel modules for older kernels. # Kernels 2.6.29-rc1 and newer include integrated btrfs. # Bug #285357 reports version 0.17 (newest standalone) does not build. # Last rited: to be removed in 30 days. sys-fs/btrfs -Joe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 12 March 2010 15:18:21 Robert Bradbury wrote: > It would appear that the pending (0321) mask of Qt3 will break > sci-misc/qcad, sci-chemistry/xdrawchem and x11-misc/glunarclock. > [..] > > Thank you, > Robert Bradbury The decision about removing Qt3 has been made 9 months ago, the decis

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/13/2010 12:34 PM, Matti Bickel wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and >> it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower > > Because i can't find this info on the treecleaner project page: is the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling of keywording bugs with only one arch

2010-03-13 Thread Markos Chandras
On Friday 12 March 2010 23:47:05 William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:11:50PM +, Jeremy Olexa wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:18:03 +0200, Petteri R??ty > > > > wrote: > > > There seems to be two different schools on who to assign a keywording > > > bug with only a single arch.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Doktor Notor
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:34:22 +0100 Matti Bickel wrote: > I have found 4 bugs assigned to treeclea...@gentoo.org, but i'm sure i > missed something. > If you have time to spare, bugs assigned to maintainer-needed@ and often rotting in bugzilla for ages despite having patches included will give y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Matti Bickel
Samuli Suominen wrote: > if a package is broken, and been in treecleaners queue for too long, and > it would be a semi-trivial fix, it simply doesn't get done without manpower Because i can't find this info on the treecleaner project page: is there a bugzilla query for the "treecleaners queue", so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Qt3 mask breaks significant science packages

2010-03-13 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 03/13/2010 01:07 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:33:12 +0100 > Ben de Groot wrote: > >> On 12 March 2010 16:59, Alexis Ballier wrote: >>> Or like the old gtk-1: completely abandon the package and let the >>> consumers upgrade slowly. IMHO this is the less annoying approach for >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Split desktop profile patches & news item for review

2010-03-13 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Friday 12 March 2010 19:39:48 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 12 March 2010 10:48, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: > > First of all, I'll delay the commit since I need to write documentation > > patches, and I won't be able, as I'll leave soon for a conference and > > will be back on Monday. > > What exactl