Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs: virtual/{cron,dev-manager,inetd,libc,linux-sources,man,os-headers,package-manager,skkserv,ssh,w3m}

2011-09-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Tim Harder wrote: As these are virtuals, I won't expect that there will be much maintenance required. Also, all of them will fall back to (at least) one herd. Personally I don't see why all of these need specific maintainers beyond the herds they fall under already,

Re: [gentoo-dev] euscan proof of concept (like debian's uscan)

2011-09-23 Thread Corentin Chary
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:39:11 +0200 Corentin Chary corentin.ch...@gmail.com wrote: ## Also update eix database, because we use eix internaly ## Bottleneck: disk and cpu ##Time: 30mn ~ 1h eix-update Using egencache to

[gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib incompatible with upstream. As a result, a lot of packages stopped building.

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2011 10:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers,

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that deals with it was locked from public view: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only? Going over the contents I dont see any. (And we've been bickering in far worse

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Freitag 23 September 2011 23:54:09 Markos Chandras wrote: Why are you discussing this in the -dev ML since there is already an open bug about this? This is clearly a problem(if any) with the zlib packages + maintainer. We ( as individual devs ) can't do much. If you want to push this

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him after setting the group restriction. That's not a very nice thing to do. However, Nikos didn't behave nicely either, so I don't quite blame

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2011 11:18 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: On Freitag 23 September 2011 23:54:09 Markos Chandras wrote: Why are you discussing this in the -dev ML since there is already an open bug about this? This is clearly a problem(if any) with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree.  The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 02:10 AM, Matt Turner wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him after setting the group restriction. That's not a very nice

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: This was just another episode of Vapier's hostile and arrogant behavior towards users.  Every time someone comes up with a valid argument of why he's wrong, the final answer is don't care, I do what I please because I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 09/24/2011 02:10 AM, Matt Turner wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de  wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 02:40 AM, Alec Warner wrote: This was just another episode of Vapier's hostile and arrogant behavior towards users. Every time someone comes up with a valid argument of why he's wrong, the final answer is don't care, I do what I please because I'm the dev and you're not. So my

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Brian Harring
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:58:02AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/24/2011 02:40 AM, Alec Warner wrote: This was just another episode of Vapier's hostile and arrogant behavior towards users. Every time someone comes up with a valid argument of why he's wrong, the final answer is

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/24/2011 03:23 AM, Brian Harring wrote: [...] Right now, zlib does the exact opposite of what should be done; Vapier changed zlib, and tries to fix the packages that break because of that change. The correct way to handle it is to let zlib be, and fix the packages that stopped working with

[gentoo-dev] GCC 4.6 unmasking

2011-09-23 Thread Ryan Hill
Now that I finally have some time for Gentoo.I'd like to get GCC 4.6 unmasked sometime in the next month. Thanks to everyone but me, we only have a few bugs remaining on the tracker. None of them I consider critical except maybe mplayer (I'd like someone from media-video to look at applying that

[gentoo-dev] Re: zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Duncan
Andreas K. Huettel posted on Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:02:50 +0200 as excerpted: It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that deals with it was locked from public view: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only?

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 19:30:15 Alec Warner wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him after setting the

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 18:02:50 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that deals with it was locked from public view: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only? Going

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 17:44:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib incompatible