Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore

[Tom Wijsman]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:04:23 -0400
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> The whole point of news is to tell people about an action they need to
> take before they have to take it.  The output of portage doesn't
> really tell you what is going on.

Note that I'm not against a news item in the short term; what I am
suggesting with mix-ins is even a step before that, but that's
something only achievable in the long term and of course not now.

So, yes, please write and send a news item out as soon as possible.

> The article in GMN doesn't provide clear instructions on what needs to
> be done, and refers to 0.99.0 when the issue impacts 0.9.23 as well.

Besides that, a longer title would help; currently it reads to me like
"X update", which means that if I don't care about X or don't know X
that I'm very likely to skip it. Mentioning systemd somewhere in there,
as well as "transition"; could help with drawing attention to it.

But given a news item, this GMN entry would become less important;
regardless, it can help for those that manage to skip reading the item.

> This has already hit stable.  The dependency on systemd is present in
> sys-power/upower-0.9.23-r3, which was just stablized.

Ehm, no, version 0.9.23-r3 controls that with a systemd USE flag; in
comparison, 0.99.0 mainly wants you to run it with systemd:

  26 May 2014; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
  upower-0.99.0.ebuild: This release is mainly for use with
  sys-apps/systemd because upstream removed support for
  sys-power/pm-utils completely from git master. The 0.9 branch is for
  sys-power/pm-utils use. Adjust ebuild accordingly.

Though I'm a bit confused why 0.99.0 doesn't list a systemd dependency;
I thought it had one, but maybe it is in another package I'm unaware of.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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