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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-maintenance/removal: Process for virtual removal
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:30:26
Message-Id: w6go8mh6a7c.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] ebuild-maintenance/removal: Process for virtual removal by Michael Orlitzky
1 >>>>> On Mon, 07 Sep 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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3 > On 2020-09-07 08:10, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
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5 >> The devmanual [1] says that a revbump should be done when a new
6 >> runtime dependency is added to an ebuild, but it doesn't say that for
7 >> removal of a dependency.
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9 > One dependency is removed, and another is added. All completely
10 > besides the point that this breaks things.
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12 Except that it doesn't, in this special case.
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14 Ulrich