Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-arch/bzip2: bzip2-1.0.5-r1.ebuild

2011-06-08 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 05:27:27 Patrick Lauer wrote: So you say that you want to follow the rules but accidentally forgot it? no idea what you're talking about.  the new policy has 0 relevance to actions performed

[gentoo-dev] Reducing glibc's default locale.gen

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Turner
Hi, Building 400~ locales is not fun on mips when building stages. No user has a need for more than some small subset of the total available locales. I filed bug [1] to request the ability to select locales in catalyst spec files, but no responses after six months -- which is totally typical of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-arch/bzip2: bzip2-1.0.5-r1.ebuild

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/07/2011 10:53 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday, May 16, 2011 09:41:08 Mark Loeser wrote: Mike Frysinger (vapier) vap...@gentoo.org said: vapier      11/05/16 03:30:02   Removed:              

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-arch/bzip2: bzip2-1.0.5-r1.ebuild

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 16:47:29 Dane Smith wrote: To be perfectly blunt, no small part of what caused this current fiasco was this exact attitude. I don't like the current policy either, it's far too wide. However, if

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-arch/bzip2: bzip2-1.0.5-r1.ebuild

2011-06-07 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 17:32:03 Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 16:47:29 Dane Smith wrote: To be perfectly blunt, no small part of what caused

Re: [gentoo-dev] MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage

2011-06-05 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: On 06/02/2011 03:04 PM, Matt Turner wrote: For this problem, I think some kind of per-ebuild ABI_DEPENDENT flag should be used to recognize which packages ABI dependencies should apply to. Without thinking about it too hard

Re: [gentoo-dev] MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage

2011-06-02 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:06 AM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, after testing this, and I have to say it mostly works smooth and fine, I hit a huge problem. I wanted to emerge a package which just depends on glibc provided libs for the oposite ABI my main ABI is. This specific package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: better policy for ChageLogs

2011-06-01 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto jmbsvice...@gentoo.org wrote: To be clear I support the goal to move our tree to git. However, I'd like to point out that simply moving to git will leave us in the same state. Assuming everyone agrees that git is far more useful than

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/libva: ChangeLog libva-1.0.10.ebuild

2011-05-09 Thread Matt Turner
2011/4/29 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org: 2011/3/9 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org: As for the reasons: its the fdo version + a debian/patches dir with, heh, some fixes and improvements I'm using... So, the SDS version is simply the freedesktop version with a few patches on top? So

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/libva: ChangeLog libva-1.0.10.ebuild

2011-05-09 Thread Matt Turner
2011/5/9 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org: maybe your answer is in the readme :) http://www.splitted-desktop.com/~gbeauchesne/libva/patches/000_README some of them are needed, some of them are useful, some we could certainly drop. If the most important patches could go upstream then, again,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/29/2011 09:26 PM, Mark Loeser wrote: Samuli Suominen (ssuominen) ssuomi...@gentoo.org said: ssuominen    11/04/29 18:13:31   Removed:              transmission-2.12.ebuild   Log:   drop old, broken with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/libva: ChangeLog libva-1.0.10.ebuild

2011-04-29 Thread Matt Turner
2011/3/9 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org: As for the reasons: its the fdo version + a debian/patches dir with, heh, some fixes and improvements I'm using... So, the SDS version is simply the freedesktop version with a few patches on top? So, the freedesktop version is actually... upstream?

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-p2p/transmission: transmission-2.12.ebuild

2011-04-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: sources.gentoo.org is for that.   ChangeLog is for users, and old is not useful information to them So it follows that users don't need to see when ebuilds were removed?

Re: [gentoo-dev] git-2.eclass final review

2011-03-31 Thread Matt Turner
2011/3/31 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org: Dne 31.3.2011 06:55, Jeroen Roovers napsal(a): On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:42:51 +0100 Tomáš Chvátal scarab...@gentoo.org wrote: Again the diff is: http://tinyurl.com/62eb88b Why not attach it? What the hell does that URL lead me to? Because our

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please enhance your USE descriptions!

2011-03-29 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:24 PM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, the descriptions of USE flags should explain what the USE is good for. In my opinion some thing like Enables foo intergration or Enables support for foo if it isn't totally clear what foo is, sucks!! There are many, many

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: FEATURES=test, sys-devel/gcc ignored test failures

2011-03-22 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: I'm trying to understand the problem better - do you know what causes those test failures? I don't expect a complete answer because that'd probably be a half of actually fixing the failures. They both have huge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pending removal(?) of media-libs/pdflib

2011-02-22 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 22.2.2011 19:20, Mike Frysinger napsal(a): Last time (many moons ago) I've checked cairo did not generated pdf it did generated raster images and wrapped them in a thin pdf

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: package.keywords-compatible snippets when stabilizing multiple packages

2011-02-16 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue e...@gentoo.org wrote: I don't think making a list for each arch is going to make anything any easier for maintainers requesting stabilization, which means those list we need more time to generate before being released. You just move the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: libpng-1.5 smooth upgrade

2011-02-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 16.51 -0300, Alexis Ballier ha scritto: you are seriously considering patching every single package using libpng like this instead of fixing those that fail??? (and i'm not talking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: lince and slmodem

2011-02-01 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Antoni Grzymala awa...@chopin.edu.pl wrote: Samuli Suominen dixit (2011-02-01, 21:09): # Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org (01 Feb 2011) # Masked for QA because the package has not been installable for an year now. # See

Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: lince and slmodem

2011-02-01 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: You can't really expect me to take responsibility for a commit I can't test. And I don't. Maybe you did this already, but it seems like the amount of time spent masking a package could have been spent poking whoever

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilisation exceptions

2011-01-26 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:31:20 +0100 Christian Faulhammer fa...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, over the course of the years the x86 (and other architectures as well) has given away permissions to maintainers/teams to mark packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] On hosting self-produced distfiles

2011-01-19 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno mer, 19/01/2011 alle 21.44 -0500, Mike Frysinger ha scritto: you really need to start off discussions as here is the problem i perceive and here is a solution i think will address it.  shooting off

Re: [gentoo-dev] [warning] the bug queue has 118 bugs

2010-12-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: By the way, we have a nice team of arch and herd testers - how about encouraging them to wrangle some bugs? Yeah, I just came here to say this. One certainly doesn't need to have completed the developer quizzes to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Move x86/amd64 CPU extensions USE flags to a new USE_EXPAND variable

2010-12-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org wrote: [snip] I agree that this could be better. To me, most of the problems with this are due to users not knowing which of these should be set for their particular CPU. Instead of having defaults set by a profile, I'd like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer notes in metadata.xml?

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan nirbh...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if we have space already, or if others would feel strongly about making space for, maintainer notes in packages'

[gentoo-dev] IUSE=minimal seems like a bad idea

2010-11-20 Thread Matt Turner
matts...@sempron /usr/portage $ egrep -l 'IUSE=.*minimal' `find -name '*.ebuild'` ^ shows lots of ebuilds with IUSE=minimal. Instead of having a minimal use flag for these packages, shouldn't we have, possibly local, use flags for whatever feature(s) the minimal flag turns off? Thanks, Matt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-15 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos pchr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11:20 Mon 15 Nov     , Christian Faulhammer wrote:  I don't want to stop you, but you are relatively new to the real keywording business.  amd64 at a point had over 30 members and could not work on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-12 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:37:51 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:00:00 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote

[gentoo-dev] Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Turner
Hi, I'd like to begin stabilizing packages on MIPS. I've gotten acks from Redhatter, leio, and r0bertz, and Kumba doesn't really care. What's the best method to go about doing this? Stabilize the system packages, then remove ~mips from ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in the profiles? Should we target package

Re: [gentoo-dev] Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Robin H. Johnson robb...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 06:00:00PM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: I'd like to begin stabilizing packages on MIPS. I've gotten acks from Redhatter, leio, and r0bertz, and Kumba doesn't really care. Out of interest, what MIPS

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:00:00 -0500 Matt Turner matts...@gentoo.org wrote: Should we target package versions that aren't stabilized on other architectures yet, so that we'll have an extended testing period before they'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] LibreOffice project: request for contributors and mentoring

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Stuart Longland redhat...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:40:03PM +0800, David Nelson wrote: A number of Linux distributions have announced their intention to ship LibreOffice with their future releases. We know that they frequently do re-branding

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Stuart Longland redhat...@gentoo.org wrote: STMicroelectronics MIPS systems (Lemote, Gdium, etc) are becoming more common, and we should definitely do a better job supporting them. (I should mention that I've been loaned a Yeelong by Daniel Clark, of

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