Hi There is a Packages component at https://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Websites for reports like this
пт, 12 февр. 2021 г. в 07:10, Jaco Kroon <j...@uls.co.za>: > > Hi, > > Firstly: I was aware of packages.gentoo.org - but only really discovered it > in the week - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS. > > Not sure whether this is the best place for my request, so if not, please > feel free to bat me in the right direction. > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/asterisk (example) refers. > > I'm the (proxy) maintainer. > > The above URL merely states: > > It seems that version 18.2.0 is available upstream, while the latest version > in the Gentoo tree is 16.15.1. > > This is correct. Just looking a little down, it's noted there are two > versions currently in tree: > > 16.15.1-r2 : 0 > 13.38.1-r2 : 0 > > What's not indicated, there are subslots (13 and 16 respectively). > > eshowkw (app-portage/gentoolkit) shows: > > Keywords for net-misc/asterisk: > | | u | > | a a p s a r | n | > | m r h p p s l i i m m | e u s | r > | d a m p p c a x 3 p a s 6 i | a s l | e > | 6 r 6 p p 6 r 8 9 h 6 c 8 p | p e o | p > | 4 m 4 a c 4 c 6 0 a 4 v k s | i d t | o > --------------+-----------------------------+----------+------- > 13.38.1-r2 | + ~ ~ o ~ ~ o + o o o o o o | 7 o 0/13 | gentoo > --------------+-----------------------------+----------+------- > [I]16.15.1-r2 | ~ ~ ~ o ~ ~ o ~ o o o o o o | 7 o 0/16 | gentoo > > Which is currently as intended (yea, I'm behind the times - stable and > working in this case over bleeding edge - and nobody other than me is yet > pushing me to stable /16, although I have a bug request to package 18 which I > intend to start work on today hopefully since I'm working on asterisk stuff > for business purposes today anyway). > > 13 is security only release now, and 16 and 18 are the primary branches where > 16 is more intended as stable and more fluctuations on 18 still (which > precludes me from using it for our company just yet). > > Point being, it would be great if packages.gentoo.org could indicate that in > above cases as follows: > > 18.2.0 is available, which is correct, and desired, but if it could also > indicate that for the 16 branch there is currently a version of 16.16.0 > available, and for 13 things are up to date. > > Would be useful too to indicate that certain branches (eg, 17 in the asterisk > case will not be packaged due to being primarily development branches, or at > the very least, will not be considered for stabling) > > In other words, guessing I'm looking for some form of "branched versions" > support here. > > I know security already has some work around subslots as it was the sec team > that requested me to add subslots to net-misc/asterisk. > > And yes ... looks like repology does have a few issues around branches too: > https://repology.org/project/asterisk/cves?version=13.38.1 > > So I would completely understand if it's not possible to deal with this. As > per > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/b793f4da5a5b5e20a063ea431500a820 > there are certain configs that can go into > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/soko-metadata.git/ - however, not being a > core developer, I don't have (nor am I requesting) access here. May I > suggest that in-package metadata (ie, metadata.xml, or even inside the > ebuilds) might be a better location for some of this configuration if > possible, and if it makes sense? For me the advantage is that as a PM I can > submit the required information via PR. > > A description of the branch structure may be more suitable here anyway, > because that way other tools can leverage it too? > > Then again, perhaps just looking at the subslots as already available is good > enough, in the case of the packages I work on this would indeed be adequate, > but it may not be for other packages. > > Looking at repology.org itself, I'm not sure my request is trivial, and I'm > not going to ask tons of effort be put into this, but perhaps an interesting > challenge for someone at some point. > > Kind Regards, > Jaco
