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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes in installed ebuilds
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:27:41
Message-Id: 53A9ED2D.70002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes in installed ebuilds by "Jörg Schaible"
1 Jörg Schaible:
2 > Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 22:15 +0200, Jörg Schaible wrote:
5 >>> So, why the heck, was the dependency to dev-libs/glib changed for an
6 >>> existing ebuild without increasing its version (e.g.
7 >>> dbus-glib-0.100.2-r2)?
8 >>
9 >> Please see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/91615
10 >
11 > These blocks had nothing to do with the multilibs ABI. It has been just the
12 > updated versions for the dependencies.
13 >
14
15 I'm not sure if you understood the bug. It was breaking dependency
16 calculation of portage, so the fallout you see is minor to what was
17 going on.
18
19 Revbumping and restabilizing all of these packages (a LOT) would have
20 been unrealistic.
21
22 Another possibility would have been to revbump the ebuild and make it
23 instantly stable without arch teams involvement. That would actually be
24 the cleaner way, but afair some people don't agree with that, so it
25 isn't standard practice.
26
27 However, you can still overwrite tree ebuilds in your local overlay and
28 revert dependencies. I once did that with pypy, because it triggered too
29 many rebuilds for me.

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Changes in installed ebuilds "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@×××.de>