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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to replace vala:0.46 by vala:0.48
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:47:35
Message-Id: 2166d897-4b72-b148-c46d-824b4fc27738@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to replace vala:0.46 by vala:0.48 by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 4/8/20 2:26 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > Having installed vala:0.48 I still cannot un-emerge vala:0.46
4 > because gnome-extra/evolution-data-server depends on it.
5 > But I cannot see that dependency in the ebuild.
6 >
7 > What am I missing?
8 >
9
10 When these changes (affecting RDEPEND) are made without a new revision,
11
12 commit cf84f5f2ec43468f080513821b83220a79801ecf
13 Author: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
14 Date: Wed Feb 12 17:47:54 2020 +0200
15
16 vala.eclass: raise VALA_MAX_API_VERSION to 0.48
17
18 Signed-off-by: Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>
19
20 it breaks dependency resolution for everyone who has the package
21 installed. This is already against our written policy, but not in
22 practice, because QA and council members regularly do it themselves.
23 Unless a majority of candidates run for council on the platform of
24 actually doing a good job and/or following the rules, we all just have
25 to live with it forever.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to replace vala:0.46 by vala:0.48 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be>