From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GJAd5-0008DV-Ov for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:08:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k81F7do5019552; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:07:39 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k81F4YXM008419 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:04:34 GMT Received: from [35.11.210.66] (warnera6.user.msu.edu [35.11.210.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.7/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k81F4UrQ014320 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:04:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44F84C2B.8020206@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:05:15 -0400 From: Alec Warner User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman: check for deprecated eclasses References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 96a2932e-aa96-4134-b130-e6006ad2f54b X-Archives-Hash: 5ea6ed0b4804525ec61b9a428db1924b Stefan Schweizer wrote: > Hi, > > Repoman needs to check for deprecated eclasses, see > http://bugs.gentoo.org/141677 > > As a result of the discussion in the bug, we would like to add > $PORTDIR/qa-data/eclass.deprecated > to allow to deprecate eclasses properly and make repoman fail. > > This will allow us to avoid problems with new ebuilds for deprecated > eclasses which result in bugs like > Bug 141629 dev-util/systemtap-20060325.ebuild uses deprecated > kernel-mod.eclass > I believe the developer has not known anything about that kernel-mod is > deprecated when making that ebuild. Now he ignores the bug and we have that > old eclass used again :( > > Best regards, > - Stefan > I would prefer to see a patch for this first, and then modify gentoo-x86 second; but I agree in principle. What of the conversation about 2 files, one for "this eclass is currently being deprecated" -> repoman warning; and "this eclass is no longer usable" -> repoman failure. Also the deprecated -> new-eclass mapping. Afaik that didn't go so well for me; but I still like it ;) old new ----- ------ foo.eclass new-foo.eclass -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list