On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:09:17 +0100
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> I like dosed because I've used it many times for the $D-removing 
> feature. If there was (is?) an automatic filter at install-time that 
> scanned files to remove $D references, that would work for me instead.

The fix is to write code that does exactly what you need, rather than
relying upon weird voodoo.

> > I think you're misunderstanding what this is for. It's to allow
> > packages to work out whether they're upgrading / downgrading /
> > reinstalling / whatever, since Zac broke the devmanual-documented
> > and PMS-required way of doing it using has_version and refuses to
> > revert it.
> 
> Ah, I see. This is the first I'd heard about this anywhere (the
> problem or the proposal). So running has_version in setup/preinst and
> again in postinst doesn't do what you'd want anymore?

They don't do what the devmanual says they do these days, yes. Zac
decided to change the version order code a while ago without telling
anyone, and without an EAPI bump. After he was told it broke a load of
ebuilds (and devmanual-described things), which he didn't know about
before he implemented the changes, he went and fixed some, but probably
not all, things relying upon it in a big commit spree...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh