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On 07/17/2013 05:17 PM, Chris Reffett wrote:
> On 07/17/2013 04:57 PM, hasufell wrote:
>> I know there was an announcement about the upcoming change to 
>> cmake-utils.eclass, however... it is not enough to give a deadline 
>> without caring if people actually fixed it by then.
> 
>> By doing that you risk breaking stable packages which is not
>> trivial.
> 
>> You _must_ do a tinderbox run, test that stuff in an overlay or 
>> whatever. You are responsible for ALL reverse deps.
> 
>> The way it was done... was not appropriate. Please be more careful 
>> next time. There are still incoming bugs about broken base_src_* 
>> calls. (see the tracker)
> 
> 
> I discussed this with hasufell on IRC, but I'll lay out the response
> on the list too. Yes, this was my fault. We (KDE team) tested in our
> overlay, but none of the packages there use the base_src_* calls,
> which is why it didn't come up in testing, and I did not realize that
> there were packages that did rely on the implicit base inherit to call
> base_src_* directly.

...and that is why it isn't permitted to directly use an eclass that you
don't inherit.  While I agree testing could (should) have been better,
the fact that people ignore the rules for writing ebuilds shouldn't
entirely fall on the KDE team.

- -Zero
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