Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] package.deprecated: Create initial template
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 07:36:04
Message-Id: 20191206073554.GA5589@sumac.radhermit.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] package.deprecated: Create initial template by "Michał Górny"
1 On 2019-12-06 Fri 02:15, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > > I think that is not an apt description in my understanding of your original
3 > > post on the matter. The package.deprecated file is supposed to contain not
4 > > just (qualified) package names, but some sort of package dependency
5 > > specifications (PMS 8.2.6).
6 > >
7 > > Perhaps the examples should also reflect this.
8 > >
9 >
10 > I haven't tested anything but bare package names. Feel free to test
11 > and let me know how much of the dep syntax works.
12
13 Speaking for pkgcheck, it supports the standard atom dep spec, i.e.
14 anything that works in package.mask should also work in
15 package.deprecated.
16
17 However, note that a matching pkg found both in the base package.mask
18 and package.deprecated won't be flagged as deprecated as it's currently
19 assumed those are mutually exclusive entries (and such entries might be
20 flagged at a later time).
21
22 Tim