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Sigh, |
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After trying to enlist help in the iRC channel to fix these, |
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the impression was made that a team meeting had to take |
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place before bugs could be fixed. I understand the |
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underlying principle of not wanting to tread over other |
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peoples territory.. but in reality we're talking about typos |
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and small build fixes. If these cannot be immediately fixed |
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and need a developer conference to resolve.. then well.. |
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Good Luck when the portage tree reaches several thousand |
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packages. Is there no interest in fixing old stuff or what? |
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1. the dev-lang/php/* ebuilds are erroneously referencing |
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a *specific revision* of freetype-1 in the DEPEND line. These |
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lines should have the = replaced with >= or better yet the |
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new ~ syntax makes sense here. |
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2. The exact same bug is present in the media-libs/libgd |
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ebuild. It needs to say >= freetype-1-r1 not =freetype-1-r1 |
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The bugs are particulary nasty because the latest -r of freetype-1 |
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in the portage tree is r2, which I had on my system, but |
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emerge --pretend php revealed that freetype would be downgraded |
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to -r1. Is this not a pretty clear case of a typo? It sure seems like |
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one to me. |
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3. The minicom ebuild in the tree doesnt build complaining of |
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a bad ko.mo file. I dont know if gettext-0.10.39 would solve the |
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problem, but even as of the latest rc6 build image, 0.10.38 is |
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being used. If somebody will add this quick hack/fix to the |
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bottom of minicom's src_unpack, it will at least compile and install: |
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cp po/Makefile po/Makefile.orig |
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cat po/Makefile.orig | sed -e "s:ko.mo: :" > po/Makefile |
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4. The x11-wm/bbkeys ebuild is badly broken. Im afraid it |
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needs to be reworked.. some parts are just plain wrong. For |
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example the part where it tries to use DESTDIR for a Makefile |
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that doesnt have such a construct. Its only 1 bin for that part |
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anyway. I have a working one, which Ill post to gentoo-ebuild. |
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Most of this could have been fixed in 5 mins had somebody |
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showed interest in doing so. Instead typos need a formal report? |
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I dont mean to sound overly sarcastic, but surely we neednt go |
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though this excercise in order to get a few small bugs tidied up. |
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Regards |
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Woodchip |