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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecating repoman
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:53:17
Message-Id: CAEdQ38Hxw2JDqC7fErJRb7BO11=bupgy3txB6Ex7=tA9A8bw=Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecating repoman by Matt Turner
1 On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 12:26 PM Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
2 > I've filed a Council bug to approve the plan for deprecating repoman.
3 > See https://bugs.gentoo.org/835013
4
5 With a vote of 6-0, the Council approved the following motion:
6
7 > pkgcheck is now considered the primary Gentoo tool for ebuild QA. repoman is
8 > no longer considered sufficient. Council condones the deprecation and removal
9 > of repoman by the portage team.
10
11 There was resistance to the idea of making repoman print a deprecation
12 warning when executed, so I will drop that idea from the plan.