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From: Virgil Dupras <vdupras@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
Subject: Re: netsurf Prefix breakage (Was: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs from xmw@g.o)
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:10:52
Message-Id: 20181126081043.f803198cc78b8dcb5ed80dd8@gentoo.org
In Reply to: netsurf Prefix breakage (Was: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs from xmw@g.o) by Benda Xu
1 On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:34:56 +0800
2 Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > This is a serious regression for Prefix and caught a lot of users
5 > without a warning. Could you please discuss on this kind of changes in
6 > the mailing list beforehand?
7
8 Discussing this change on the list? I haven't touched the eclass, I
9 simply fixed the xmw-abandoned netsurf package which had been broken for
10 3 months prior to that (and by broken, I don't mean only on Prefix. Why
11 talk about 1-1 features in those situations?). Fixing packages without
12 touching eclasses doesn't require gentoo-dev review.
13
14 Also, netsurf doesn't have any prefix keyword. Some of the lower-level
15 libs have ~m68k-mint, but it isn't clear why because the only
16 non-netsurf revdep to those libs is net-libs/libwebsockets and it isn't
17 keyworded for prefix either.
18
19 Please, open a ticket on the appropriate package with a description
20 of an actual breakage and I'll be deligthed to address it.
21
22 Regards,
23 Virgil

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