On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 11:09 PM Joonas Niilola <juip...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 9.3.2022 23.00, Matt Turner wrote: > > I'd like to deprecate and ultimately remove repoman. I believe that > > dev-util/pkgcheck and pkgcommit (from app-portage/mgorny-dev-scripts) > > are far superior replacements, and it makes sense to have people using > > the same tool and seeing the same warnings as in the CI. > > > > Are there any useful checks or behaviors of repoman that are missing > > from pkgcheck and pkgcommit? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > I still fail to see the "why" in here. Repoman is better than pure 'git > commit' that I know some people still like to use, and as long as it's > kept maintained.
repoman is inferior to other tooling mentioned. The other tooling is actually run in CI. Developers should get the same warnings locally as in CI. Restated another way: I'm tired of telling people to stop using repoman or "pkgcheck would have caught that". > My only worry is: are pkgcheck and pkgdev _really_ maintained anymore? > More than repoman is? More than repoman is, definitely.
