[gentoo-project] Re: Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

[Ulrich Mueller]

Please add "Behaviour of asterisk with = dependency operator" to the
agenda.

In a nutshell: By the current description of the * operator in PMS,
a dependency cat/foo-1.2* matches cat/foo-1.2, cat/foo-1.2.1, etc.
(which is what is intended) but it also matches cat/foo-1.20.
For details see bug 560466 [1].

I propose that we update the definition in PMS such that version
components cannot be split when matching (i.e. 1.2* would not match
1.20).

Alternatives to vote on (in order of my own preference):
a) Introduce this change retroactively for all EAPIs
b) Introduce it in EAPI 6
c) Introduce it in a later EAPI

A patch for variant a) can be found in [2]. For the other variants,
it would be similar but with an additional EAPI table.

Note that Portage anticipated this change and implements the new
behaviour since version 2.2.21 already [3].

Ulrich

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560466
[2] https://560466.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=412594
[3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=d4966a381ee4577818bd972946647338046715b1