Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/13/2012 12:42 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: Alexandre Rostovtsev schrieb: Users know a package's natural name, not the occasionally cryptic ebuild name, and certainly not the category. If I want to install a game called Neverwinter Nights, it

[gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Corentin Chary
As some may know, I'm working on euscan, and currently euscan only use CPV and SRC_URI to find new upstream versions. This works well if upstream url and version scheme is sane or if upstream has an API for that (rubygem, pypi, pecl, pear), but it's far from optimal. Debian use a specific file

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Luca Barbato
On 2/11/12 2:00 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: I think this is not the first time it's been discussed here, but maybe I'm wrong. Other distros associate a more user-friendly package name (application name) to packages. Say, they bind libreoffice-writer to LibreOffice Writer in package metadata. How

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:33, Corentin Chary corentin.ch...@gmail.com wrote: One other thing, metadata.xml already contain a remote-id tag, which would be very great to help euscan do its job, but a lot of package are lacking it: - Should we patch repoman to scan SRC_URI and issue a warning

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:33:11AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote: Currently, if you run euscan on this package, it doesn't work at all: http://euscan.iksaif.net/package/media-plugins/vdr-softdevice/ 1/ it's hosted on gentoo mirrors, and scanning them takes too long because all files are in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Corentin Chary
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:33, Corentin Chary corentin.ch...@gmail.com wrote: One other thing, metadata.xml already contain a remote-id tag, which would be very great to help euscan do its job, but a lot of package are

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Corentin Chary
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:33:11AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote: Currently, if you run euscan on this package, it doesn't work at all: http://euscan.iksaif.net/package/media-plugins/vdr-softdevice/ 1/ it's hosted on

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: upstream/watch in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Corentin Chary
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Corentin Chary corentin.ch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:33:11AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote: Currently, if you run euscan on this package, it doesn't work at all:

Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal

2012-02-13 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 09-02-2012 a las 12:41 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: Hello Looks like our net-misc/mDNSResponder packages are orphan and unmaintained for a looong time, they also have some opened bugs (with hangs, build problems...) and looks like avahi with mdns compat can replace it. OK with

Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal

2012-02-13 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 2/13/12 11:55 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El jue, 09-02-2012 a las 12:41 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: Hello Looks like our net-misc/mDNSResponder packages are orphan and unmaintained for a looong time, they also have some opened bugs (with hangs, build problems...) and looks like avahi with

[gentoo-dev] Lastrites: dev-dotnet/db4o, app-text/man2html, net-misc/pavuk, app-admin/pcihpview, net-print/xpp, app-admin/gtkdiskfree, media-libs/libdlna, media-video/ushare, dev-libs/libtranslate, ap

2012-02-13 Thread Pacho Ramos
# Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (13 Feb 2012) # Outdated, useless, hard to bump, without maintainer. # Removal in a month (bug #234846) dev-dotnet/db4o # Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org (13 Feb 2012) # Unmaintained and problems with its packaging (bug #261347) # Use man2html provided by sys-apps/man

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Markos, there are also webapps. -- Fabio Erculiani http://lxnay.com

[gentoo-dev] dev-java/ant-core slot conflicts

2012-02-13 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
I'm getting an annoying slot conflict while arch testing: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-java/ant-core:0 (dev-java/ant-core-1.7.1-r4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles/features/64bit-native/package.use.mask contents redundancy

2012-02-13 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:40:04 -0800 Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 02/12/2012 10:15 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: Feature request: Can we add a double-inclusion detector for profiles to repoman? If it's not too noisy. Right now, profiles.desc contains 83 profiles with double

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Application name in metadata.xml

2012-02-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 13 February 2012 21:35, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: This field wont be useful to users but to GUI applications that want to show a pretty name instead of a weird PN. It would be fully optional but it would have a standard syntax. You can't use longdesription for that to

Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles/features/64bit-native/package.use.mask contents redundancy

2012-02-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/13/2012 08:16 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: Another alternative would be to skip double-inclusion of identical profiles at the portage level, but it sounds very fragile and counterintuitive. Maybe, a bit less fragile, than current state. Either way is prone to unintended results, so

Re: [gentoo-dev] profiles/features/64bit-native/package.use.mask contents redundancy

2012-02-13 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Sergei Trofimovich sly...@gentoo.org wrote: some mips profiles are scary too:    http://dev.gentoo.org/~slyfox/profiles_mips.png Weird. I'll take a look at that.

Re: [gentoo-dev] About masking net-misc/mDNSResponder for removal

2012-02-13 Thread Dale
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 2/13/12 11:55 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El jue, 09-02-2012 a las 12:41 +0100, Pacho Ramos escribió: Hello Looks like our net-misc/mDNSResponder packages are orphan and unmaintained for a looong time, they also have some opened bugs (with hangs, build problems...)

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global use flag: ayatana

2012-02-13 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:44:41 + Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: Just a heads up. There are more than 5 packages using the 'ayatana' use flag so I will add it to global use flags in 48 hours. Post the description so we can bikeshed it to death. -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain,