Re: [gentoo-dev] About DESCRIPTION in ebuilds needing to end with a dot .

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 19 October 2012 15:01:57 Pacho Ramos wrote: At least in spanish, it's mandatory to end phrases with a dot ., would you agree with trying to enforce this trivial change with a repoman warning? actually the opposite here ... DESCRIPTION should be a sentence fragment, and should avoid

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 02 October 2012 15:53:41 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 17 August 2012 23:31:36 Mike Frysinger wrote: with glibc-2.15 gone stable, it's time to get 2.16 in the pipe. the big issues have been sorted out already. there's a few packages still known to build fail, but they've had

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing server profile variants from profiles.desc

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 15 October 2012 13:45:22 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 15 October 2012 11:20:19 Zac Medico wrote: On 10/14/2012 09:22 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: sounds like we should extend the profiles.desc file or profile structure to include a description so that people know the intention

Re: [gentoo-dev] Let's populate IUSE_IMPLICIT in the base profile

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 27 September 2012 12:02:58 Ian Stakenvicius wrote: build is specifically for catalyst and/or for building the stages, right? If so, this one makes sense to me to add. this is used in a few packages, but we should encourage trimming it rather than expanding. i see that the kernel

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 00:22, Mike Frysinger wrote: reminder: plan on landing this week. glibc-2.17 is in the process of shaking out upstream. *shrug* we've got the warning so it's fair for it to land. I recommend people who're using ~arch to mask it on their systems for a short while though, as we

[gentoo-dev] Re: spotify license

2012-10-30 Thread Matthew Thode
On 10/29/2012 03:32 PM, Matija Šuklje wrote: On Ponedeljek 29. of October 2012 15.52.20 Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Matthew Thode wrote: It's looking hard to be able to add the spotify ebuild to tree because of licensing concerns.

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-10-30 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 30/10/2012 00:22, Mike Frysinger wrote: reminder: plan on landing this week. glibc-2.17 is in the process of shaking out upstream. *shrug* we've got the warning so it's fair for it to land. I recommend

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 08:21, Rich Freeman wrote: That might warrant a news item. Sure, they're ~arch, but they're not going to know about this unless somebody tells them. Is it just my impression or did you just volunteer? ;) -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu —

Re: [gentoo-dev] About unresolved bugs assigned to mobile for ages

2012-10-30 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 09:50 +, Markos Chandras wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Hello I would like to know about mobile team status and also show that this team has important bugs assigned to them for a long time, some of them with patches

[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-10-30 Thread Duncan
Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 07:44:20 -0700 as excerpted: On 30/10/2012 00:22, Mike Frysinger wrote: reminder: plan on landing this week. glibc-2.17 is in the process of shaking out upstream. *shrug* we've got the warning so it's fair for it to land. I recommend people

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 10:46, Duncan wrote: ... I've been running gnutls-3.x for some time (at one point it was needed for the live-git pan I run), tho I had to remask gnutls-3.1.3 as I experienced some problem (IDR what) with it. But I'm running 3.1.2 without issue. I've been using gnutls-3 on

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is different from all others and no upstream default check seem to work correctly with it, I'm questioning the usefulness of having it slotted. Among other things, with

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested by many people, without ML review due to unproductive feedback Uhm... Please, stop doing this! -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is different from all others and no upstream default check seem to work

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 12:24, Michał Górny wrote: How are you going to solve the issue of a lot of packages being broken with new boost versions? Are you volunteering to keep fixing them with each release? How are you going to solve the problem that the packages that are not fixed to work with a new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 21:17, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested by many people, without ML review due to unproductive feedback Uhm... Please, stop doing this!

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 21:24, Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 So given that it's a PITA for the maintainers, a PITA for the users, eselect boost has been shown to be a bad idea and so on ... can we just go back to just install it and that's about it? How are you going to solve the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
Dne Út 30. října 2012 20:24:26, Michał Górny napsal(a): On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is different from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 21:17, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested by many people, without ML review due to unproductive feedback Uhm... Please, stop doing this!

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/12 03:45 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne Út 30. října 2012 20:24:26, Michał Górny napsal(a): On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: So given that it's a PITA for the maintainers, a PITA for

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:08:39 + (UTC) Samuli Suominen (ssuominen) ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] case ${EAPI:-0} in 0|1|2|3|4) ;; *) die ${ECLASS}.eclass API in EAPI ${EAPI} not yet established. esac sounds like a useless and annoying check for just exporting one function

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:56:21 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/12 03:45 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne Út 30. října 2012 20:24:26, Michał Górny napsal(a): On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:30:16 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 21:56, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:08:39 + (UTC) Samuli Suominen (ssuominen) ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] case ${EAPI:-0} in 0|1|2|3|4) ;; *) die ${ECLASS}.eclass API in EAPI ${EAPI} not yet established. esac sounds like a useless and

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-10-2012 16:56:21 -0300, Alexis Ballier wrote: # @FUNCTION: _udev_get_udevdir # @INTERNAL # @DESCRIPTION: # Get unprefixed udevdir. _udev_get_udevdir() { if $($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --exists udev); then echo -n $($(tc-getPKG_CONFIG) --variable=udevdir udev) else

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:57:11 +0200 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30/10/12 21:56, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:08:39 + (UTC) Samuli Suominen (ssuominen) ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] case ${EAPI:-0} in 0|1|2|3|4) ;; *) die

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 22:02, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/12 04:00 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:56:21 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/12 03:45 PM, Tomáš

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:32:57 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 30/10/2012 12:24, Michał Górny wrote: How are you going to solve the issue of a lot of packages being broken with new boost versions? Are you volunteering to keep fixing them with each release? How

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 22:06, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/12 03:56 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:08:39 + (UTC) Samuli Suominen (ssuominen) ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] case ${EAPI:-0} in 0|1|2|3|4) ;; *) die

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:02:59 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 30/10/12 04:00 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:56:21 -0400 Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:08:07 -0300 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:57:11 +0200 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30/10/12 21:56, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:08:39 + (UTC) Samuli Suominen (ssuominen)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 22:18, Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:08:07 -0300 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:57:11 +0200 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30/10/12 21:56, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:08:39 + (UTC) Samuli

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 12:31, Michael Mol wrote: I've never understood why Gentoo uses a separate ebuild for it. I mean, I can understand some efficiency gains from having a single compiled copy, but it shouldn't be surprising in the least when upstream makes breaking changes in the API. Because

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 13:04, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: #1 - the MAX_BOOST_VERSION thing isn't needed anymore (and i get the impression that it actually is, but putting that aside since i don't maintain any packages that depend on boost), and It'll just behave like _every other library_ we have in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 13:10, Michał Górny wrote: By inheriting boost-utils and using the correct function to use older boost slot? Which will not work. Can you build boost-1.49 with glibc-2.16? NO! At least not without patching it by changing its API. So how do you propose to solve package A that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote: In general, I agree...but Boost wasn't intended to be a shared library, so there shouldn't be a conflict there. But there are shared libraries, and they are not small either. And I'd rather, say, hunt an RWX section problem (a security problem) with a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested by many people, without ML review due to unproductive feedback

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.euwrote: On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote: In general, I agree...but Boost wasn't intended to be a shared library, so there shouldn't be a conflict there. But there are shared libraries, and they are not small

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 22:49, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu mailto:flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote: In general, I agree...but Boost wasn't intended to be a shared library, so there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 30-10-2012 15:47:51 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested by many

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30/10/12 22:49, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu mailto:flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: On 30/10/2012 13:39, Michael Mol wrote: In general, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:17:25 +0100 Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested by many people, without ML review due to unproductive

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 23:16, Fabian Groffen wrote: On 30-10-2012 15:47:51 -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 30/10/12 23:24, Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:17:25 +0100 Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org wrote: On 30-10-2012 19:08:39 +, Samuli Suominen wrote: Added: udev.eclass Log: New eclass to determine udevdir from udev.pc pkg-config file as requested by many people, without

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:47:51 -0500 Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: Stop the bike shedding. Provide real constructive improvements. I'm not copying and pasting the same hunk of code in a bunch of ebuilds. The point of getting approval for eclasses is not to force you to copy and paste

[gentoo-dev] Re: glibc-2.16 moving to ~arch

2012-10-30 Thread Duncan
Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:56:11 -0700 as excerpted: On 30/10/2012 10:46, Duncan wrote: ... tho I had to remask gnutls-3.1.3 as I experienced some problem (IDR what) with it. But I'm running 3.1.2 without issue. What gnutls-3.1.x are you planning to unmask? Do I need

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread James Cloos
DEP == Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu writes: DEP Among other things, with each GCC/GLIBC update all but a handful of DEP slots are kept working; in this case I think most if not all 1.50 DEP are broken. One datapoint: Since protage failed to preserve icu-49 for me, upon which boost

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 16:34, James Cloos wrote: Since protage failed to preserve icu-49 for me, upon which boost depends, I found that 1.48 and 1.49 build with gcc 4.7.2; but none of the earlier versions did. And only 1.50+ will work with glibc-2.16. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes

[gentoo-dev] Re: gentoo-x86/eclass: udev.eclass

2012-10-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:28:47 +0200 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Only every second person is using the ChangeLog in eclass/ as pointed out and discussed in this ML for so many times it's ridicilous. So step up and set a good example. Since when do we defer to the LCD (Laziest

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:45:38 -0700 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu wrote: Besides, honestly it's not that bad. I think that half the headache that we're having is due to the slotting more than from boost itself. And the other half is due to people actually not going to fix their crap

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Duncan
Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:41:40 -0700 as excerpted: On 30/10/2012 16:34, James Cloos wrote: Since protage failed to preserve icu-49 for me, upon which boost depends, I found that 1.48 and 1.49 build with gcc 4.7.2; but none of the earlier versions did. And only 1.50+

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 17:42, Duncan wrote: icu-49.1.2 seems to build just fine against glibc-2.16.0, here. I just rebuilt to be sure. (With gcc-4.7.2.) I said 1.50+, I'm referring to Boost. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:34:02 -0400 James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com wrote: DEP == Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu writes: DEP Among other things, with each GCC/GLIBC update all but a handful of DEP slots are kept working; in this case I think most if not all 1.50 DEP are broken.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 17:49, Ryan Hill wrote: And I had to argue to get 1.48 fixed. I'm not sure why we have to keep so many unbuildable versions in the tree. Because as mgorny explained earlier he's expecting some fairy to make it possible to _always_ install an older boost just because it's slotted.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2012-10-30 19:30:16 Diego Elio Pettenò napisał(a): Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is different from all others and no upstream default check seem to work correctly with it, I'm questioning the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 19:50, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I think that slotting is needed, but pkg_postinst() could create (without using `eselect boost`) symlinks like /usr/include/boost etc. It is possible that a package works with e.g. Boost 1.50, but not 1.51, so it could use

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-30 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2012-10-29 23:07:15 Diego Elio Pettenò napisał(a): c) try to get betas and rcs in asap _but masked_; =sys-devel/gcc-4.7.0, whose usage is required to trigger some problems, is already package.masked. d) call for a tinderbox run (I can do that with a quick email); One of major problems with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-30 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2012-10-31 04:18:14 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis napisał(a): Besides founding problems in about 10% of packages s/founding/finding/ -- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 20:18, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: One of major problems with this tinderbox is that it cannot be used to test packages against newer versions of packages present in overlays [1] Which is not a problem since we're _not_ talking about packages in overlays but of a

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
Okay let's see a moment what's going on with the slotted boost. www-plugins/gnash has a blocker on the old unslotted boost because it doesn't really support multiple boost that well, like most other packages. sci-biology/cufflinks and sci-biology/express are next to completely screwed because

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Dienstag, den 30.10.2012, 11:30 -0700 schrieb Diego Elio Pettenò: Given the amount of headaches that Boost seems to give us all, now thanks to the recent changes even more because Gentoo's boost is different from all others and no upstream default check seem to work correctly with it, I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping slotted boost

2012-10-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/10/2012 22:44, Tiziano Müller wrote: I agree. It really doesn't make sense to keep unbuildable stuff in the tree. The point of slotting it in the first place was also to force a rebuild of reverse dependencies to have them use newer boost (since at that time when boost slotting was