[gentoo-dev] sys-apps/portage-9999 and the repoman rewrite. Call for testers

2015-09-21 Thread Brian Dolbec
After today's release of portage-2.2.21, I merged the repoman re-write code in to portage master branch. So, the code is functionally identical to portage-2.2.21 with the exception of repoman. It is now ready for more testing before it too is released in a normal portage release. Please keep in

Re: [gentoo-dev] www-apps/otrs: needs new maintainer

2015-09-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 16.09.2015 09:15, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Well, my ebuilds for www-apps/otrs are in here already: > > https://github.com/stefangweichinger/gentoo-overlay/tree/master/www-apps/otrs > > (the other packages in that overlay aren't that up to date ... simply > some work collected over the ye

Re: [gentoo-dev] JFYIOR: A Simple Package Versioning Spec

2015-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/09/2015 21:45, Taahir Ahmed wrote: > > Instead of adding more and more layers to the Gentoo versioning spec to > work around insane upstreams, why not put the relative ordering of > versions into the ebuilds? > > Then, a version identifier would just be a unique string. > > An ebuild would

Re: [gentoo-dev] JFYIOR: A Simple Package Versioning Spec

2015-09-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:45:19 -0500 Taahir Ahmed wrote: > Instead of adding more and more layers to the Gentoo versioning spec > to work around insane upstreams, why not put the relative ordering of > versions into the ebuilds? That idea was what lead to Zynot... -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.a

Re: [gentoo-dev] JFYIOR: A Simple Package Versioning Spec

2015-09-21 Thread Taahir Ahmed
Instead of adding more and more layers to the Gentoo versioning spec to work around insane upstreams, why not put the relative ordering of versions into the ebuilds? Then, a version identifier would just be a unique string. An ebuild would declare which version strings it succeeds. Then even in

[gentoo-dev] last rites: dev-php/smarty-docs

2015-09-21 Thread Michael Orlitzky
# Michael Orlitzky (21 Sep 2015) # Mask for removal in 30 days. Obsolete. Bug #561040. dev-php/smarty-docs

Re: [gentoo-dev] Github PR commenting policy

2015-09-21 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 20/09/15 11:26, Jeroen Roovers wrote: > My personal policy is to completely ignore anything Gentoo related > that gets posted on Github. +1. - -- Alexander berna...@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ALLARCHES and the maintainer action(s)

2015-09-21 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Sun, 20 Sep 2015, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 9/20/15 1:23 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > > >> [0] I am pretty sure some arches will want to opt out of this > >> scheme, at least for some more critical packages. > > ALLARCHES shouldn't be used on critical packages. > > Exactly. So suppose th