Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 17:44:50 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 > packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those > revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's > zlib incompatible

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 18:02:50 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that > > > > deals with it was locked from public view: > >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 > > Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only?

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday, September 23, 2011 19:30:15 Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel > > > > wrote: > >> Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him > >> after setting the group re

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel > wrote: >> Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him >> after >> setting the group restriction. >> > > That's not a very nice thing to do. I un-hide the

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Matt Turner
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 > packages currently in the tree.  The maintainer of zlib pushed those > revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib > incompatible with

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2011 11:18 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > On Freitag 23 September 2011 23:54:09 Markos Chandras wrote: >> >> Why are you discussing this in the -dev ML since there is already >> an open bug about this? This is clearly a problem(if any) wit

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Because he cannot do this; the bug is dev-only now and Mike un-cc'ed him after > setting the group restriction. > That's not a very nice thing to do. However, Nikos didn't behave nicely either, so I don't quite blame vapier for his act

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Freitag 23 September 2011 23:54:09 Markos Chandras wrote: > > Why are you discussing this in the -dev ML since there is already an > open bug about this? This is clearly a problem(if any) with the zlib > packages + maintainer. We ( as individual devs ) can't do much. If you > want to push this f

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> It's a mess right now and it just doesn't look right. The bug that > deals with it was locked from public view: > >https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383179 Is there any good reason why this bug is dev-only? Going over the contents I dont see any. (And we've been bickering in far wo

Re: [gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/23/2011 10:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and > -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed > those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, ma

[gentoo-dev] zlib breakage

2011-09-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I believe something needs to be done with the zlib-1.2.5.1-r1 and -r2 packages currently in the tree. The maintainer of zlib pushed those revisions with a patch that alters macro identifiers, making Gentoo's zlib incompatible with upstream. As a result, a lot of packages stopped building. Bu