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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-maintenance/removal: Process for virtual removal
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:18:55
Message-Id: 960de357-65a4-3c50-f0e6-7b880641e12f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-maintenance/removal: Process for virtual removal by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 2020-09-07 08:10, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >> This has caused dependency resolution problems in the past. The PMS
3 >> implies a new revision,
4 >
5 > PMS says nothing about new revisions or revision bumps:
6 >
7
8 That is indeed what the word "implies" implies.
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11 > The devmanual [1] says that a revbump should be done when a new runtime
12 > dependency is added to an ebuild, but it doesn't say that for removal of
13 > a dependency.
14 >
15
16 One dependency is removed, and another is added. All completely besides
17 the point that this breaks things.

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