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On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:27 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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> See tracker bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163921). |
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> guile-1.8 may go stable soon because of a security bug in gnucash (bug 167706). |
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> I think all blocking bugs which are still open, can be fixed by either adding |
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> use flag detection or depending on guile-1.6* as appropriate. |
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guile 1.6 and 1.8 are in the same SLOT still. I don't see how anyone |
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could depend on guile-1.6* - that's usable for when it's a separate SLOT |
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and not causing upgrade-downgrade cycles for users. |
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In line of this mail I articulated further my concerns about this kind |
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of DEP, and the existence of deprecated and discouraged USE flags in the |
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first place on http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163908 - the |
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relevant guile related bug against gnome |
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> The following |
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> code can be used to check use flags: |
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> if has_version =guile-1.8*; then |
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> local flags="deprecated regex" |
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> built_with_use dev-scheme/guile ${flags} || die "guile must be |
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> built with \"${flags}\" use flags" |
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> fi |
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> Please fix your bugs :) |
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-- |
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Mart Raudsepp |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: leio@g.o |
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Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio |