From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy-level discussion for minimum versions on dependencies
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 16:48:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383752934.23332.4.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527A5D22.10009@gentoo.org>
On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 10:15 -0500, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> However, it's been a long-standing general practise that if there are
> no deps in the tree older than what is necessary for a package, that
> package doesn't need to have a minimum version on the dependency atom.
> As such, issues similar to this are probably lying in wait all other
> the place in the tree.
this is a common misconception: ebuilds must have min. deps matching
their requirements (exactly because of this problem)
it can be fixed on the user side by 'emerge -uDN world' meanwhile but
this doesn't mean the ebuild doesn't have a bug, even if minor
Alexis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-06 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-06 15:15 [gentoo-dev] Policy-level discussion for minimum versions on dependencies Ian Stakenvicius
2013-11-06 15:26 ` Kent Fredric
2013-11-06 15:41 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-11-06 16:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-06 18:28 ` Rich Freeman
2013-11-06 20:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-11-08 22:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " William Hubbs
2013-11-06 15:48 ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2013-11-06 17:56 ` yac
2013-11-06 18:04 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2013-11-06 18:22 ` Mike Gilbert
2013-11-06 18:53 ` yac
2013-11-07 9:44 ` Alexis Ballier
2013-11-07 15:22 ` Peter Stuge
2013-11-08 0:55 ` Rémi Cardona
2013-11-09 1:19 ` Ben de Groot
2013-11-09 12:28 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-11-09 17:02 ` Matt Turner
2013-11-09 17:27 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-11-10 14:11 ` Thomas Kahle
2013-11-06 15:52 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
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