[gentoo-dev] games.eclass policy

2016-02-07 Thread M.B.
Hello folks. While hacking away on a new ebuild I came across the issue that games.eclass apparently got banned from future use. The only references I was able to dig up (apart from helpful people on IRC), were https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=566498 (games.eclass: use of games group needs

[gentoo-dev] Status of GPG-verified trees

2016-05-05 Thread M.B.
Good evening folks, in the past I witnessed bits and pieces of attempts to increase the infrastructure userside, but, unless I'm mistaken, there's still room for improvement. Since a couple of years we have the webrsync-gpg FEATURE, which enables automatic verification of the portage tree, when u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for changes for the next EAPI version

2016-05-17 Thread M.B.
Am 17.05.2016 um 09:37 schrieb Pallav Agarwal: > For normal users we wouldn't. But currently, arch-testers need to make a > judgement call on what to test when a stable-req bug is filed. Tests run in > src_test are provided by upstream, and does not guarantee that a package > that has been merged