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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:38:04
Message-Id: 508EF70A.9010801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On 10/29/2012 04:59 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
2 > On 29/10/2012 13:19, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
3 >> I just generated the list of dependencies, 28 packages, see below.
4 >> Compile tests against each are easy enough. Run tests against
5 >> non-library packages are easy too. It would be harder to do an
6 >> exhaustive test against, say, dev-libs/boost because then we are a
7 >> couple of libraries levels deep. Not sure how deep is enough with this
8 >> one.
9 > Are you sure about your numbers? My script shows 52, not 28 packages.
10 >
11 > Among others, your list does not show libreoffice-bin, which is what
12 > this time would have caused the most damage.
13 >
14
15 I used reverse-dependencies.py from the arch-tools repo. greping the
16 tree shows the following 53 packages. (I'm either not using
17 reverse-dependencies.py correctly or the tool is missing something.
18 I'll try to figure that out later.)
19
20 Anyhow, the question really remains, how to "deeply" test this package
21 before adding it to the tree even ~arch?
22
23
24 app-accessibility/brltty
25 app-arch/unar
26 app-emulation/vmware-workstation
27 app-emulation/open-vm-tools
28 app-emulation/vmware-view-open-client
29 app-i18n/ibus-qt
30 app-i18n/fcitx
31 app-misc/tracker
32 app-office/calligra
33 app-office/libreoffice-bin
34 app-office/libreoffice
35 app-text/calibre
36 app-text/sword
37 app-text/bibletime
38 dev-db/couchdb
39 dev-db/firebird
40 dev-db/sqlite
41 dev-lang/php
42 dev-lang/R
43 dev-lang/parrot
44 dev-libs/389-adminutil
45 dev-libs/xerces-c
46 dev-libs/beecrypt
47 dev-libs/boost
48 dev-libs/dee
49 dev-libs/yaz
50 dev-libs/xalan-c
51 dev-libs/libxml2
52 dev-tex/bibtexu
53 dev-util/dwdiff
54 dev-vcs/veracity
55 games-simulation/openttd
56 games-strategy/megaglest
57 gnustep-base/gnustep-base
58 media-libs/harfbuzz
59 media-libs/raptor
60 media-sound/music-file-organizer
61 media-sound/mpfc
62 net-libs/qmf
63 net-libs/webkit-gtk
64 net-misc/suite3270
65 net-nds/389-admin
66 net-nds/openldap
67 net-nds/389-ds-base
68 net-nntp/tin
69 sci-geosciences/mapnik
70 sys-apps/gptfdisk
71 sys-apps/prefix-chain-utils
72 www-apps/389-dsgw
73 www-client/uzbl
74 www-client/chromium
75 x11-libs/qt-webkit
76 x11-libs/qt-core
77
78 --
79 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
80 Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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