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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from
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On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 22:42 +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:20:59 -0400
> Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > On 03/23/2017 04:22 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > >
> > > Indeed, according to pms.git commit log, the rule was laxed
> > > because
> > > it was clearly an oversight in EAPI6 [1] and was the standard
> > > behavior in previous EAPIs. But in the same commit, an "harmless
> > > note" was added that "Ebuilds must not access the directory in
> > > global scope." in addition to the "May or may not exist"
> > > statement
> > > and "Not necessarily present when installing from a binary
> > > package"
> > > footnote. Please explain how this last addition is not a
> > > backwards-breaking change. PMS is not a tool to push your
> > > personal
> > > agenda of cleaning up the deve^^err tree.
> > >
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?id=fa4ac9474048ec7
> > > 5af138fc61f22485c06aac5b7
> > >
> >
> > Read that diff again. Before the commit, FILESDIR was invalid in
> > global scope (only valid in src_*). This commit makes it valid in
> > global scope, but adds the "... don't access it there" clause.
> >
> > It's not a breaking change because any behavior affected by the
> > clause was already illegal before the commit.
>
>
> If we were to stop thinking and follow the rule by the letter: What
> are
> we waiting for to file bugs for every package having ${FILESDIR}
> somewhere in global scope then ?
> After all, those are the council approved versions and EAPIs cannot
> change.
>
> Or you can read again the first sentence in the part you quoted.
>
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586416