Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > So just so we are clear, everyone but me thinks that DESCRIPTION="Based > on the ${ECLASS} eclass" is a completely useful and critically required > piece of code? > I don't think anyone really cares, and it doesn't seem like anyon

Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > I have a personal vendetta on this subject. Several eclasses set a > completely worthless description (and even more set a mostly worthless > DESCRIPTION) which ends up contaminating the DESCRIPTION for an ebuild > when inherit is d

Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

2012-09-14 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/14/2012 05:27 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:18:16 -0400 > "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 09/14/2012 04:56 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012

Re: [gentoo-dev] License groups in ebuilds

2012-09-14 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: >> The "GPL-2+" file workaround doesn't sound to bad. >> Call be picky, but we could actually use a "GPL-3+" file, too. >> With that we could distinguish "exactly GPL 3" and "GPL 3 or later" >> pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzr.eclass changes, please review

2012-09-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > I didn't mean to pick on bzr.eclass, I think it's always wrong to do > this. And you picked out the exact reasoning I did "I'm not sure if it > would be worth the effort to compute a more accurate argument for > addwrite." I thin

Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

2012-09-14 Thread Michał Górny
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:18:16 -0400 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/14/2012 04:56 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:51:54 -0400 > > "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > >> I have a personal vendetta on this subj

Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

2012-09-14 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/14/2012 04:56 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:51:54 -0400 > "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: >> I have a personal vendetta on this subject. Several eclasses set a >> completely worthless description (and even more set a mo

Re: [gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

2012-09-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:51:54 -0400 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" wrote: > I have a personal vendetta on this subject. Several eclasses set a > completely worthless description (and even more set a mostly worthless > DESCRIPTION) which ends up contamina

[gentoo-dev] DESCRIPTION="Based on the ${ECLASS} eclass"

2012-09-14 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a personal vendetta on this subject. Several eclasses set a completely worthless description (and even more set a mostly worthless DESCRIPTION) which ends up contaminating the DESCRIPTION for an ebuild when inherit is done after DESCRIPTION is s

[gentoo-dev] media-video/vlc looking for a new maintainer

2012-09-14 Thread Alexis Ballier
Hi, After more than 5 years maintaining it (sh*t I'm old), I've progressively lost interest in it, to the point that I consider it is better that someone else takes care of it. So far I have dropped maintainership to the video herd but vlc usually needs more specific attention, so I fear that it m

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzr.eclass changes, please review

2012-09-14 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/14/2012 11:51 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Rick "Zero Chaos" Farina wrote: > >>> addwrite / >> Am I reading this wrong, or is "addwrite /" being more than just a >> little lazy? I know this isn't part of you

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzr.eclass changes, please review

2012-09-14 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Rick "Zero Chaos" Farina wrote: >> addwrite / > Am I reading this wrong, or is "addwrite /" being more than just a > little lazy? I know this isn't part of your change set but it has > always bothered me that it needs to unlocking writing on the whole > fil

Re: [gentoo-dev] bzr.eclass changes, please review

2012-09-14 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/14/2012 05:01 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > In bug 434746 it has been suggested that ${WORKDIR} should look like a > bzr branch or checkout. Proposed changes for bzr.eclass are included > below, comprising the following: > > - bzr_fetch can option

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About changing security policy to unCC maintainers when their are not needed

2012-09-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Alex Legler wrote: > A general note: The request makes one wonder a bit how much you actually > care about your package if a few emails disturb you. Arches, Security, > and users reporting issues are trying to help you get the package into a > good shape. I suspec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About changing security policy to unCC maintainers when their are not needed

2012-09-14 Thread Alex Legler
On 13.09.2012 09:29, Pacho Ramos wrote: > […] > OK, then, looks like the policy could be that, once all arches are done, > maintainers cleanup ebuilds and unCC themselves, that way, if they are > still getting mails from bug report is because they forgot to remove > vulnerable versions and, if not

Re: [gentoo-dev] About changing security policy to unCC maintainers when their are not needed

2012-09-14 Thread Alex Legler
Am 2012-09-13 22:11, schrieb Rich Freeman: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: El jue, 13-09-2012 a las 15:48 +0200, Alex Legler escribió: Sorta OT but a general thing: I think you should CC teams you want to talk to and not only use the gentoo-systemd-flamewars^W^W-dev mailin

[gentoo-dev] bzr.eclass changes, please review

2012-09-14 Thread Ulrich Mueller
In bug 434746 it has been suggested that ${WORKDIR} should look like a bzr branch or checkout. Proposed changes for bzr.eclass are included below, comprising the following: - bzr_fetch can optionally call bzr checkout --lightweight instead of bzr export. The default behaviour won't change, the n