Re: [gentoo-dev] [Fwd: [gentoo-automated-testing] BROKEN: repository became broken!]

[Yixun Lan]

On 22:16 Mon 01 Feb     , Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Montag, 1. Februar 2016, 21:30:41 schrieb Mike Frysinger:
> > On 01 Feb 2016 19:55, Patrice Clement wrote:
> > > > New issues:
> > > > https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gentoo-ci/780f65b/output.html#dev-> > > libs/efl
> > >
> > > This commit is breaking the tree:
> > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=97a6aec
> > >
> > > I did try to work around the issue you've introduced when but the
> > > enlightenment eclasses are a bit of mystery to me and I eventually gave
> > > up.
> > >
> > > Could you revert this commit and fix this issue?
> >
> > the issue is that efl-1.15.2 is marked stable for alpha/ia64/sparc, and
> > it depends on app-i18n/ibus, but commit 97a6aec deleted the only ibus
> > ebuild that was marked stable for those arches.
> >
> > it can be fixed in a few ways (i'm listing in order of preference):
> > (1) mark a newer ibus stable
> > (2) revert that commit to re-add the old stable ebuilds
> > (3) add USE=ibus to package.use.stable.mask for these arches
> > (4) degrade all packages for these arches to unstable
> > -mike
>
> I took the liberty of doing (2) and reverted the commit. Not sure why this
> needs so much discussion; after all a broken tree is always suboptimal.
>
> Now there's lots of time to come up with a better solution.
>
thanks for doing this

yes, 2) is the easiest and quickest way to fix.. 


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