Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes in installed ebuilds

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

Jörg Schaible:
> Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 22:15 +0200, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>>> So, why the heck, was the dependency to dev-libs/glib changed for an
>>> existing ebuild without increasing its version (e.g.
>>> dbus-glib-0.100.2-r2)?
>>
>> Please see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/91615
> 
> These blocks had nothing to do with the multilibs ABI. It has been just the 
> updated versions for the dependencies.
> 

I'm not sure if you understood the bug. It was breaking dependency
calculation of portage, so the fallout you see is minor to what was
going on.

Revbumping and restabilizing all of these packages (a LOT) would have
been unrealistic.

Another possibility would have been to revbump the ebuild and make it
instantly stable without arch teams involvement. That would actually be
the cleaner way, but afair some people don't agree with that, so it
isn't standard practice.

However, you can still overwrite tree ebuilds in your local overlay and
revert dependencies. I once did that with pypy, because it triggered too
many rebuilds for me.