From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FDE015800A for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:15:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7C9EE08F9; Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:15:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D8E2E08E8 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2023 15:15:41 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:15:32 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package stabilization groups Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="QeZfAnVMfdbE6DJC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.10 (Darwin 22.5.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 9.0) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Archives-Salt: 99645a96-15fc-42da-9315-f1c0b5145373 X-Archives-Hash: ea7b004c74c7cdf9b341a6ef0c3cbf12 --QeZfAnVMfdbE6DJC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 16-07-2023 10:57:54 -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Many of us have started using `pkgdev bugs` to file stabilization > bugs. It works well (Thanks Arthur!) and I encourage everyone to give > it a try. >=20 > Where possible, it files one stabilization bug per package. This makes > arch testers' jobs easier and makes the task easier to automate. >=20 > But sometimes we do want to stabilize packages together. For example > major versions of x11-wm/mutter and gnome-base/gnome-shell are tied > together. If a new mutter is stabilized without the new gnome-shell, > the tree will still be consistent, but emerge -u @world will warn > users that the mutter upgrade is blocked. >=20 > There was some brief discussion on IRC about how to document these > groupings, and two main ideas were suggested: >=20 > - add a field to metadata.xml to specify the group by an arbitrary name. > E.g. > Each package in the group would specify the same value of name=3D"..." >=20 > - maintain the groups in a separate place (similar to portage @sets). >=20 > Can anyone think of particular advantages or disadvantages to one > solution versus the other? Any other (better) ideas? I don't know how widespread the problem is, and how much it can be generalised, but could you perhaps use a virtual, such that stabilisation of the virtual means the deps must be satisfied? Thanks, Fabian --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level --QeZfAnVMfdbE6DJC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEELUvHd/Gtp7LaU1vuzpXahU5EQpMFAmS0CZIACgkQzpXahU5E QpML4wgAp0vd8S0TbxEkiwjSo5LR9MxFDXQw6JsiPv4WUXLm9RGpDzR3UORtiI4e tXHNgmdWvGfv2WiWm29zELMggEiburXTcbSHnFWn8bHIq2vPDDLBDbxr3z2ysvmV YGw8eReTyMptX8Pydm0TyH7Y048zeoCDwm+WAdqP4rr7YQAsFX+TS78hNFEOk9Vl b9iY6a4+Q5grAX29z0gSnwHRWM3zZC3HtBQtPOgalyj3ZLMEn2LKuI4raIvdxme6 oK0F58MYzyIlqRhIOuoFOIMEL6hCvXR7dZYFyHwwmsEHuqJI26Jub2YnSdOwWAQI NcWbd8hC0N3GUlvzbNx3KVr6kB90Gw== =ZOHH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QeZfAnVMfdbE6DJC--