From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R7E1u-0005Xc-Bb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:15:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83D4121C0DB; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6DB21C17D for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxh2 with SMTP id 2so4737140fxh.40 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:54:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WnQgWcWztprl6d9imkyCKBByrA0+WesFhIAdT3eY9H4=; b=Bs0SMqwVByRBzFRdniI/0SBilita/tHjCVdOQf6UrGThlPbVhM0YmPgHnkpdyLLYoH 1qGfTH/ctKBG+0M4f2GVhtnqVAmG0Xu6d/kVQPXymLbHZRROf+0NuQp3hRSl1pxWl18Z kRt/2ni2EubMLnadedgaWwfYVMNp9h5GB0sJ4= Received: by 10.223.55.136 with SMTP id u8mr2881470fag.46.1316814851868; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:54:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.65] (188-221-166-114.zone12.bethere.co.uk. [188.221.166.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b10sm12506853fam.1.2011.09.23.14.54.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4E7D0001.4060106@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:54:09 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110721 Thunderbird/5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d3507d97213c8eeb55c7f8b63d1f19b4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2011 10:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and > -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed > those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making > Gentoo's zlib incompatible with upstream. As a result, a lot of > packages stopped building. Bug reports for broken packages come in > and then are being modified to fit Gentoo's zlib. > > Breaking compatibility with upstream zlib also means that > non-portage software, the ones I install with "./configure > --prefix=$HOME/usr && make install", also won't build. > > It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that > deals with it was locked from public view: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 > > Is there a plan for this, or will we have to live with what is > essentially an incompatible Gentoo fork of zlib? > > Why are you discussing this in the -dev ML since there is already an open bug about this? This is clearly a problem(if any) with the zlib packages + maintainer. We ( as individual devs ) can't do much. If you want to push this further, I'd suggest you to CC qa@ on the bug or contact them directly. - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOfQABAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCI20P/3uLDPIWQ1UdVFZxBfS+C9xe Wc9RvmAt9TlNuBltigs/XnQqfZCg9xIF79AobDuKg1PD8YlUvG/bnHdeXazPiMvN o4IqBi0Rdc+jJ1eCXlxsPiUndpGXbIOzCsANRDHW8xwF6Au8/odhcEADtcZ8BFX2 C/SW4/UOg+w8VAmcRu85JOZlnuGvSbCCKFpCOM4/BMR7k/fWnWXqFsKQfrUvi8vO Hu4u4wzTRjPnLVVvmUG8CTH+mXGI+BatAMQ3hD359AV/ya6wr5c+xTon6XO9oYhg smpdx8IbLkJR3YCfBcr6BvNX4T3mTG8FyjL2YSuxdYWjB3Z5kcg3mdvnc74kXemc tfqmrI1MG1ZtnQXeOQ2+kX+EKvdxEOLEiALZliZ3lZYeXV4uZqJOh9zdE84K5w71 Ptukbkx59cDtXRyAR/UCUs6ZH3edbXFBxQZUk/qRz6SFL3qha2LYgdLNyu91lrzB UFztH35k6khf+5nY4eFIKQVIqbBREt5dGKMSN1l0tBSCvzehqbF9VthF0EQPrjVr DaTEtOTLSvCCX46F6uHgN5fxSsTACOqZVBEGlOAS4wE56o16CAE2ZPGlUgvhx+Hw 4L6oPhfCk3kIedOyNCBEczlCRyO6wBTM7SLOwDJc9mQcKZ99A+UbLcT5LLAgH8Vu 58a3jNtXeOFQlFdQflW1 =M4je -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----