[gentoo-dev] Re: bzr.eclass into Portage

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Christian Faulhammer wrote:

> "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>:
>> With the help of Ingmar we did some cleanup and added support for
>> eclass-manpages at
>> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/desktop-effects.git;a=blob_plain;f=eclass/bzr.eclass;hb=bzr.
>> I'll be moving the updated eclass to the master branch, testing and
>> asking users to try it out during this weekend.
>> This eclass is used in the overlay for the live
>> avant-window-navigator ebuilds, so it's probably not as used/tested
>> as the remaining packages. It has provided us the support we needed
>> for awn, but you might need additional features or to review existing
>> ones. Please test the updated eclass on your overlay, feel free to
>> maintain it and, when you think its ready, add it to the tree. When
>> you do so, I'll remove it from our overlay and we'll use the eclass
>> on the tree.

>  We have a prior version for some time now in the Emacs overlay for
> two live ebuilds...so we go and merge your changed (ulm already
> did), test it and report any problems.

As I just learned there are (at least) three overlays using
bzr.eclass, namely desktop-effects, emacs, and ltsp.

So I think it is justified to move bzr.eclass to the Portage tree.
Currect version of bzr.eclass is attached.

Please raise your objections *now*.

Ulrich