On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Christoph Junghans <ott...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> With nelchael's retirement I (with backup from djc) will take over the >> maintenance of mercurial.eclass. As one of the first things I would >> like to change the default value of EHG_REVISION. >> >> EHG_REVISION defines the revision/branch/tag to be checkout in src_unpack. >> The current default is "tip", which identifies the most recent revision. >> This can lead to unwanted branch changes (see >> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380947#c16>) as the branch in >> which tip resides is not fixed. >> The new default should be "default", which is mercurial's default name >> for the main branch. >> >> Looking at the packages using mercurial.eclass >> (<http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eclass-usage/mercurial.txt>) the >> above change shouldn't cause any problems (some packages already use >> EHG_REVISION="default" to avoid branch changes), but I will wait >> another week before committing the change. >> >> -- >> Christoph Junghans >> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ottxor/ >> > > Sounds good to me; using "tip" never made sense to me either. >
+1 -- Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
