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From: Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Policy change] Package masking of live ebuilds
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 23:19:43
Message-Id: c3bacaae-53f6-11d1-baa8-44bd6783dd9f@veremit.xyz
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [Policy change] Package masking of live ebuilds by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 18/02/20 19:52, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > The devmanual says about live ebuilds:
3 >
4 > | CVS ebuilds must be either with empty KEYWORDS or package.masked
5 > | (but not both). Empty KEYWORDS are strongly preferred. This applies
6 > | to "live" ebuilds (-9999) and to ebuilds that extract a static
7 > | revision but still use CVS for fetching.
8 >
9 > As of today, I count 2123 live ebuilds in the Gentoo repository with
10 > empty KEYWORDS and 1 (one) ebuild with non-empty KEYWORDS but
11 > package.masked.
12 >
13 > So, can we finally make empty KEYWORDS mandatory and drop the part
14 > about package.masking?
15 >
16 > Ulrich
17 >
18 > [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html
19 > (Yes, there really should be a chapter about Git sources ...)
20 This sounds like an ideal opportunity for repoman/pkgcheck warnings .. no?

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