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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass and bug 475502
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:28:52
Message-Id: 51E70C8B.9050808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass and bug 475502 by Chris Reffett
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4 On 07/17/2013 05:17 PM, Chris Reffett wrote:
5 > On 07/17/2013 04:57 PM, hasufell wrote:
6 >> I know there was an announcement about the upcoming change to
7 >> cmake-utils.eclass, however... it is not enough to give a deadline
8 >> without caring if people actually fixed it by then.
9 >
10 >> By doing that you risk breaking stable packages which is not
11 >> trivial.
12 >
13 >> You _must_ do a tinderbox run, test that stuff in an overlay or
14 >> whatever. You are responsible for ALL reverse deps.
15 >
16 >> The way it was done... was not appropriate. Please be more careful
17 >> next time. There are still incoming bugs about broken base_src_*
18 >> calls. (see the tracker)
19 >
20 >
21 > I discussed this with hasufell on IRC, but I'll lay out the response
22 > on the list too. Yes, this was my fault. We (KDE team) tested in our
23 > overlay, but none of the packages there use the base_src_* calls,
24 > which is why it didn't come up in testing, and I did not realize that
25 > there were packages that did rely on the implicit base inherit to call
26 > base_src_* directly.
27
28 ...and that is why it isn't permitted to directly use an eclass that you
29 don't inherit. While I agree testing could (should) have been better,
30 the fact that people ignore the rules for writing ebuilds shouldn't
31 entirely fall on the KDE team.
32
33 - -Zero
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Re: [gentoo-dev] cmake-utils.eclass and bug 475502 hasufell <hasufell@g.o>