Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCHES] python-r1 suite clean up & impl reorder

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's another patchset. Mostly fixups inspired by multilib-build.eclass
> changes with a few little additions.
>
> Changes:
>
> 1. eclass-set variables are now read-only,

Sounds ok, but might break some ebuilds.

> 2. 'unset -f' is used to unset temporary & local functions,
> 3. implementations are reordered for sane order.
>
> I've tested this with a few dozen random distutils-r1, python-r1,
> python-any-r1 and python-single-r1 packages. However, for
> the implementation reorder a larger tinderbox run would be appreciated.
>
> As explained in the commit, the reorder may influence files installed by
> a package, and implementation selected by python_setup(). This should
> not cause issues for correctly written ebuilds, and should help us find
> those that are not correctly written ;-).
>
> In other words, we're finally considering Python 3.x preferred over
> Python 2.x.

That could be a significant change, and I do expect that this will
break some ebuilds.

Any easy way to test this first? Or should we just be ready for the bug reports?