[gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore

[Samuli Suominen]

Note: If you want to convert your ebuild, you can /msg ssuominen on
Freenode and
post an ebuild diff, I can quickly review if the dependency changes are
OK for you,
or clarify anything else you want regarding this.

Sorry, I know this unorthodox workflow, but I'm too sick to even
properly sit in the
chair currently, and people keep poking me regarding the issue, over any
other issues ;-(

On 26/05/14 23:15, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> UPower upstream removed sys-power/pm-utils support from 0.99 release
> (currently unkeyworded in tree),
> as in, from current git master.
> UPower upstream created 0.9 bit branch that has the old legacy upower
> with sys-power/pm-utils support
> available still with --enable-deprecated.
>
> So, sys-power/upower will move on to 0.99 and is, thus, mostly usable
> only for sys-apps/systemd users,
> however, Xfce upstream in git master already moved the
> sys-power/pm-utils code that upower had
> over directly to the apps, like xfce4-session and xfce4-power-manager,
> and will, after next releases,
> still work without sys-apps/systemd even with 0.99 version.
>
> What was done?
>
> sys-power/upower-pm-utils was created where we will maintain upower 0.9
> git branch, currently it's identical
> to =sys-power/upower-0.9.23-r2, but will soon be a git snapshot instead.
>
> What needs to be done before we can keyword >=sys-power/upower-0.99?
>
> See examples of uevt, wmbattery, xfce4-session, xfce4-settings,
> xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-systemload-plugin,
> xfce4-weather-plugin which I already converted (mostly) from this list:
>
> http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/sys-power/upower
>
> Other are all undone, as in, converting deps to what they actually support:
>
> || ( sys-power/upower sys-power/upower-pm-utils ) where everything is
> supported
> || ( <sys-power/upower-0.99 sys-power/upower-pm-utils ) where only
> upower with pm-utils is supported
>> =sys-power/upower-0.99 where new API is mandatory, currently this would
> only be >= GNOME 3.12 stuff
> well, figure it out, these are just examples
>
> Confusing bug 508920 also exists, but most of the conversation there is
> outdated
>
> I'm going to spinal surgery this friday, and I propably don't have
> health, time, or motivation to open a Tracker
> bug and file all the bugs for the reverse deps this week at all.
> Thus, I propably won't be working on this much this week at all. Things
> are OK as they are now in Portage,
> because >=sys-power/upower-0.99 is not keyworded yet, so nothing is
> broken, it's just work undone.
>
> I know GNOME folks want to get it done, because GNOME 3.12 stuff
> actually needs upower-0.99, but I'm
> saying they can NOT keyword the version without fixing rest of the tree
> before doing so as described
> above. So help me out, or wait it out (like 2 weeks).
>
> Thanks,
> Samuli