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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] News item for review: python-exec package move
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:12:50
Message-Id: 20131106161247.3221c243@gentoo.org
1 Please review the following news item. I would prefer committing it
2 as soon as I get an ACK from all the relevant parties since the issue
3 is hitting users pretty hard.
4
5
6 Title: python-exec package move
7 Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
8 Content-Type: text/plain
9 Posted: 2013-xx-xx
10 Revision: 1
11 News-Item-Format: 1.0
12 Display-If-Installed: dev-python/python-exec
13
14 Due to the recent issues which caused dev-python/python-exec:0 being
15 removed prematurely [1], we had to perform an urgent package move.
16 Since we could not use the automatic updates support in portage, users
17 will notice two python-exec packages and possibly blockers.
18
19 Currently, dev-lang/python-exec is the real package that contains
20 python-exec and that will be used in the future. dev-python/python-exec
21 is kept for compatibility with dependencies in already-installed
22 packages.
23
24 In the most favorable scenario, the package will be upgraded correctly
25 on your next world update. However, you need to make sure to pass
26 the '--deep' (-D) and '--update' (-u) options to emerge. If you don't
27 want to perform a complete world update, you may as well manually
28 upgrade dev-python/python-exec:
29
30 emerge -1 dev-python/python-exec
31
32 This will cause portage to update both python-exec packages and resolve
33 the blockers properly.
34
35 Please note that if you applied any kind of package-specific
36 modifications to dev-python/python-exec (such as applying keywords
37 through 'package.accept_keywords'), you will need to copy them to
38 dev-lang/python-exec as well.
39
40 If you applied keywords to dev-python/python-exec in order to unmask
41 Python 3.3 on a stable system, please consider removing the keywords
42 and reading our wiki page that explains how to properly unmask USE
43 flags [2].
44
45 We apologize for all the inconveniences.
46
47 [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489440
48 [2]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Python/PYTHON_TARGETS#Unmasking_non-stable_implementation_on_a_stable_system
49
50 --
51 Best regards,
52 Michał Górny

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