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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy-level discussion for minimum versions on dependencies
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 01:55:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383872121.31675.2.camel@exos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383817490.28316.6.camel@localhost>

Le jeudi 07 novembre 2013 à 10:44 +0100, Alexis Ballier a écrit :
> in short: if a package requires version X then the ebuild should require
> version X; it can be forgotten but it's a bug.

That _is_ our policy. Ebuilds should - at the very least - mirror what
upstream's build script requires.

So, count my +1 there.

Rémi



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08  0:55 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
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 [this message]
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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