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On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:48:54 +0100 |
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Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:15 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> > However, it's been a long-standing general practise that if there |
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> > are no deps in the tree older than what is necessary for a package, |
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> > that package doesn't need to have a minimum version on the |
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> > dependency atom. As such, issues similar to this are probably lying |
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> > in wait all other the place in the tree. |
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> this is a common misconception: ebuilds must have min. deps matching |
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> their requirements (exactly because of this problem) |
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> it can be fixed on the user side by 'emerge -uDN world' meanwhile but |
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> this doesn't mean the ebuild doesn't have a bug, even if minor |
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> Alexis. |
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When I started contributing via sunrise, I've been |
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adding the minimal versions of dependencies as declared by upstream |
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but I met with very strict enforcement of the policy to not |
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specify minimal version if all the ones in current tree satisfies. |
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Is it documented somewhere or is it just unwritten consensus? |
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What I see is only Ebuild Policy [1e] which doesn't deal with this. |
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.. [1e] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 |
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Jan Matějka | Gentoo Developer |
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