[gentoo-dev] package up for grab: dev-vcs/subversion

2012-08-21 Thread Thomas Sachau
Since sunrise has migrated to git, i dont really use this package any more, so it got moved downwards on my priority list resulting in slow responses to bug reports. I just bumped it to the latest version and closed some bugs, so currently there should not be much left except some enhencements and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Useless messages (elog, ewarn, etc) in ebuilds

2012-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:50:58 +0200 Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > > It's thus much better to use REPLACING_VERSIONS (which is plural, > > and this is important) rather than has_version, if you're asking > > about the current package rather than another package. > > Right. Thanks. REPLACING_VERSION

Re: [gentoo-dev] Useless messages (elog, ewarn, etc) in ebuilds

2012-08-21 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Quoting Ciaran McCreesh (2012-08-21 15:35:38) > On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:24:57 +0200 Amadeusz Żołnowski > wrote: > > We have "has_version" function to check if user has actually updated > > from relevant version. Please use this to not confuse users who > > installed the package first time or are u

Re: [gentoo-dev] Useless messages (elog, ewarn, etc) in ebuilds

2012-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:24:57 +0200 Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > We have "has_version" function to check if user has > actually updated from relevant version. Please use this to not > confuse users who installed the package first time or are upgrading > from Y to another version. Doing it using ha

[gentoo-dev] Useless messages (elog, ewarn, etc) in ebuilds

2012-08-21 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Hi, I'd like to call our attention to messages printed by ebuilds for users (elog, ewarn, and so on). We all know that users rarely read them, but this is understandable, since most of them are *completely* useless, most of the rest are confusing, and only couple of them are useful. Who has time