Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86*

2015-03-29 Thread James Le Cuirot
te that isn't in the list either; I thought it would be. Java herd is struggling with the regular VM packages enough as it is, we could really do without supporting this one as well. I very much doubt that end users need it any more. Any objections to removing it? [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] Should Gentoo do https by default?

2015-03-29 Thread James Le Cuirot
y poor. That 240x320 screen surely hurts your eyes. ;) You could probably pick up something better for nothing. That phone can also be rooted quite easily (I've done it) and then flashed with something more recent. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpnCRFXGIzBb.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86*

2015-03-29 Thread James Le Cuirot
x27;ll also mean killing off sun-j2me-bin and proguard, which we seem to be cool with (very dead), and getting novell-groupwise-client to always use the bundled JRE. I need dilfridge's input on the latter. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgprcZKTnT0wB.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ALLARCHES bugzilla keyword for stabilization requests

2015-03-30 Thread James Le Cuirot
dd the keyword as stable immediately? If not then why not? I tried to find the council meeting minutes where this was discussed but to no avail. :( -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpFSNEImSUuj.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java, dev-java/sun-j2me-bin

2015-04-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (05 Apr 2015) # A 32-on-64 Java VM is no longer considered necessary and a multilib # icedtea-bin would be preferred anyway. sun-j2me-bin depends on this # but it has been superseded by Oracle's JME and I doubt we'll ever # need that either. Removal in 30 days. app

[gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
ks ago and haven't heard anything back. He hasn't been seen on IRC for over 5 months. :( -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp0Pq1rUf7R8.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-08 Thread James Le Cuirot
st doesn't check the SLOT at the moment. It outputs an error message by default but dies if you have JAVA_PKG_STRICT set, which all Java devs should do. P.S. Quit top posting. :P -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a generic solution to non-USE-conditional circular deps

2015-04-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
witched "internally" by the package manager to allow to unbreak the > cycle. If it only needs to be applied the first time, should there even be a flag at all? Maybe it could be more transparent than that? -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpsS50TqyVY4.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/diablo-jdk, dev-java/diablo-jre-bin

2015-04-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (14 Apr 2015) # Not updated beyond Java 6, no longer supported upstream, full of # holes, and probably doesn't work. This is the last VM currently # available to FreeBSD until we try icedtea but BSD team are cool with # this. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/diablo-jdk dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-15 Thread James Le Cuirot
t; already have a huge backlog. Please do not let bureaucracy get in > > the way here. > > Sounds good to me (as long as repoman agrees :). Turns out it doesn't agree. RepoMan scours the neighborhood... KEYWORDS.stable [fatal] 1 dev-embedded/arduino/arduino-1.0.5-r1.ebu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-16 Thread James Le Cuirot
e it? :/ > > portage- has new -S (--straight-to-stable) option for repoman. Thanks for adding that, sometimes it is just necessary so this makes me feel a little more at ease. I used --force this time around but I'll look for it in the next release. -- James Le Cuirot (ch

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/classworlds

2015-04-18 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (18 Apr 2015) # Old, unmaintained, not used by anything, and superseded by # plexus-classworlds. There is a newer version in java-overlay that # can't go yet but will go eventually. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/classworlds -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Importance of SLOTs on Java dependencies

2015-04-28 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 03:38:09 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 16:25:20 +0100 > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 17:10:30 +0200 > > Patrice Clement wrote: > > > > > Tuesday 07 Apr 2015 20:41:05, Pacho Ramos wrote : > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Sparc Arch status

2015-05-17 Thread James Le Cuirot
he sparc-solaris keywords we have on several other packages. The sparc keyword has already been dropped from java-config. The sparc-solaris keywords can stay because those profiles are experimental anyway. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpq4K47_2tFw.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail

2015-05-23 Thread James Le Cuirot
on't forward my Gentoo mail and connect using IMAP directly. I am totally fine with that setup. The spam is a tad annoying but it's not reached intolerable levels for me and I do use procmail, which helps a little. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpvJPVVKZMal.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2015-05-27 Thread James Le Cuirot
take sys-fs/safecopy as I've used it once or twice. It looks dead simple and I doubt there's going to be a new release any time soon. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Indention in metadata.xml

2015-06-06 Thread James Le Cuirot
ly a tab, as tabs were made for indentation. Tabs for me too, please. It's worth noting that metagen uses tabs. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpyACVhcMix7.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: ban EAPI 1

2015-06-10 Thread James Le Cuirot
va packages and this change would mean that I have to address the EAPI of 5 ebuilds first but don't let that stop you. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpsbGyat_DRY.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-eselect/eselect-ecj

2015-06-20 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (20 Jun 2015) # Now part of eselect-java. Its continued presence has complicated # dependencies and created bugs such as #505352. Removal in 30 days. app-eselect/eselect-ecj -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpnw38QeplHo.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/{jldap,openspml,openspml2,soap}

2015-07-29 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (29 Jul 2015) # dev-java/soap is fixable but it and its related packages are all # dead upstream. Removal in 30 days. See bug #556250. dev-java/jldap dev-java/openspml dev-java/openspml2 dev-java/soap -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpRA8ZVZyskS.pgp

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/cocoon

2015-07-30 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (30 Jul 2015) # Holding back the removal of Java 6 and upstream is on life # support. Removal in 30 days. See bug #423761. dev-java/cocoon -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

2015-08-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
ation on this? I'm not declaring this to be a great idea, just throwing it out there for consideration. :) -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
ope with an additional one. It's also important to note that while ppc and ppc64 can be tested on the same hardware, I think ppc64le would require different hardware? If ppc64le does become popular then I would suggest that we drop 32-bit ppc first. Others may disagree though. :) -- James Le

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: useflag policies

2015-08-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
e package and 5 is > the slot for default choice, where either BOTH of flags(qt4, qt5) are > enabled or disabled That sounds a little bit like what I suggested earlier. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/884257a2d924a51851d629b1dc9b30df -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduce ppc64le architecture into gentoo ! please share your comments

2015-08-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
ompiled) could be provided and some initial work could be done to ensure they actually function but beyond that, endian issues would simply be dealt with as they are reported. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] .gitignore

2015-08-12 Thread James Le Cuirot
of, the default locations for DISTDIR and PKGDIR still seem to be /usr/portage/distfiles and /usr/portage/packages. I must admit that I'm struggling to find the logic for this in Portage but those are the defaults nonetheless. So why would they not exist? I'm certainly using them here

Re: [gentoo-dev] .gitignore

2015-08-12 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:11:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/08/2015 23:29, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > Mike Frysinger gentoo.org> writes: > >> > >> On 10 Aug 2015 09:17, Michał Górny wrote: > >>> Dnia 2015-08-10, o godz. 02:42:21 Mike Frysinger napis

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated & ban

2015-08-16 Thread James Le Cuirot
our highest priority though and I'd prefer that you didn't file bugs. It's not like we're unaware of them. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpLKnlfCCDKL.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] QA bikeshed: killing USE=dedicated in favor of uniform USE=client+server

2015-08-20 Thread James Le Cuirot
the micro-managing argument flies so well here because these flags are much less common than flags like qt. client and server would probably be enabled by default in most cases and I doubt there are any games where you can't have both. If there were a conflict then you would want to make a con

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass

2015-08-21 Thread James Le Cuirot
packaged separately? How do we handle the cdinstall flag these days when there are also multiple online sources like Humble Bundle and GOG? Do we just do whatever seems best for the game in question? I'd be happy to hold such discussions in a distro-wide fashion though. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpCfmn38lyM0.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] games.eclass

2015-08-22 Thread James Le Cuirot
ut there's no reason to split off -data ebuilds for every possible > package. It's done if it makes sense and doesn't overcomplicate ebuild > development and user-side configuration/installation. I'm pleased to say I was thinking along the same lines. This gives me confide

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-30 23:59 UTC

2015-09-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
7;s because it used to just have the CVS username rather than the full name and e-mail address. I'd be happy with just the e-mail address. If that's still too long, maybe we could replace @gentoo.org with @g.o and that would deal with most cases. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to add a new package with git?

2015-09-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
you just cd to the parent directory before you pull or push. What's happening is the directory is being deleted and recreated during the rebase but your shell session is still pinned to the original, which has now disappeared. git seemingly doesn't like being run from a non-existent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-30 23:59 UTC

2015-09-04 Thread James Le Cuirot
49dd47fee6964be ] > Now the output looks like below (or attached txt file) That looks very nice, thanks. I don't know what will happen if something doesn't fit but hopefully it's something sensible. :) -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2015-08-30 23:59 UTC

2015-09-04 Thread James Le Cuirot
. How else would we determine this? -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp09BGHR5ZAz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

2015-09-17 Thread James Le Cuirot
ev and does not intend to be but he still likes to be CC'd on all Java mail. I would not like to have to add his address to the metadata.xml of every Java package. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] Inconsistent and messy layout of team maintainership in Gentoo

2015-09-17 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:02:02 +0100 Markos Chandras wrote: > On 09/17/2015 12:05 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 06:57:08 -0400 > > "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > > > >> Totally rethink the idea of emails aliases as something that is &

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFI: A better workflow for github pull requests

2015-09-20 Thread James Le Cuirot
build system, which I've never seen used anywhere else and isn't currently in the tree either. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpajjAZIRett.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Github PR commenting policy

2015-09-20 Thread James Le Cuirot
; I replied that most of them are not related to my PR but will still > do them. After I pushed the changes the comment making the > suggestions gets deleted. They are probably not deleted but merely hidden. There should be a "Show outdated diff" link that will reveal them. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp3aG3Yp7FSV.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Github PR commenting policy

2015-09-20 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:54:24 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Sunday, September 20, 2015 11:33:34 PM James Le Cuirot wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:53:25 -0400 > > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > On Saturday, September 19, 2015 7:31:11 AM Michał Górny

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFI: A better workflow for github pull requests

2015-09-24 Thread James Le Cuirot
er can add an SSH key against the account in much the same way as GitHub. It still uses a shared git account for the SSH connection though. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/{commons-modeler,hibernate,hibernate-annotations,jax-rpc,mx4j*,proxool}, www-servers/axis

2015-09-27 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (27 Sep 2015) # A string of interdependent obsolete Java packages. hibernate and # axis are alive upstream but we have no immediate plans to bump # them. hibernate has also been modularized so would now be called # hibernate-core anyway. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/commons

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/commons-transaction

2015-09-27 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (27 Sep 2015) # No release since 2007 and no revdeps. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/commons-transaction -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpZfdsunu2Up.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] tcltk herd empty

2015-10-02 Thread James Le Cuirot
gt; > net-im/tkabber used to be pretty good but I haven't looked at it in > ages. gitk (in dev-vcs/git) is about the only thing I use it for these days and even that's rare. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC/announcement] Reviewers project

2015-10-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
ey have already been present, and possibly even stable, for months or years then they're probably not doing that much harm. We should allow improvements to be done iteratively. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpih6fMbyp9B.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/commons-attributes and dev-java/xjavadoc

2015-10-19 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (19 Oct 2015) # Dead projects with no revdeps. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/commons-attributes dev-java/xjavadoc -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/flute

2015-10-29 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (29 Oct 2015) # Dead project with no revdeps. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/flute -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpQL9kymH8Jd.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-hosted code review

2015-11-01 Thread James Le Cuirot
nded a few times but while I'm sure it's capable, my brief encounters with it have found the interface a little overwhelming. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpEwqbKFIfeO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v1] enable gccgo for all platform

2015-11-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
support it as a general purpose JDK. Its only use is for bootstrapping icedtea. Now that Java has been open sourced and gcj has fallen so far behind, gcc are planning to scrap it so icedtea will need to find another way to bootstrap (probably JamVM) if it isn't to rely on prebuilt versions of its

[gentoo-dev] [EAPI 7] Cross-compile improvements (BDEPEND, BROOT, sysroot)

2015-12-01 Thread James Le Cuirot
tool. I filed several bugs about this before realising that fixing this globally would be better. elibtoolize doesn't require anything to be installed and the description does say "this function should always be safe to run" but I suppose calling it unconditionally might screw up

Re: [gentoo-dev] [EAPI 7] Cross-compile improvements (BDEPEND, BROOT, sysroot)

2015-12-02 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 12:40:08 +0100 Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:58:55 + > James Le Cuirot wrote: > [...] > > > > I raised one further point with mgorny that he feels could > > potentially go into EAPI 7 but I think could remain an > > imple

Re: [gentoo-dev] [EAPI 7] Cross-compile improvements (BDEPEND, BROOT, sysroot)

2015-12-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
reat if someone more could push for such a change. Agreed. I already wondered if there was an autotools variable that would be more appreciate. Since aballier also said that this should be corrected, I'll see about doing that in conjunction with these changes. I wouldn't hold your breath for upstream. I've heard of them ignoring other issues like the "as-needed" one for years. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpuIH0FO4bAT.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/9] multilib-build.eclass: Add missing error checks

2015-12-06 Thread James Le Cuirot
t isn't "set -o pipefail" a global operation? It will continue to take effect even after this function ends? -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp769W13uRS0.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/9] multilib-build.eclass: Add missing error checks

2015-12-06 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 20:23:56 + James Le Cuirot wrote: > Possibly being dumb here but isn't "set -o pipefail" a global > operation? It will continue to take effect even after this function > ends? Oh never mind, it's an internal function that you're only c

Re: [gentoo-dev] [EAPI 7] Cross-compile improvements (BDEPEND, BROOT, sysroot)

2015-12-06 Thread James Le Cuirot
so under EAPI 7, this would be true. In case #2, when not cross-compiling, SYSROOT = / but ROOT would be something else. DEPEND would go to / and RDEPEND would go to ROOT. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgptZVfMcVCeh.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 7/9] multilib-build.eclass: Enable EAPI 6

2015-12-06 Thread James Le Cuirot
EAPI=${EAPI} is not supported" ;; > > esac > > Why not write this as 4|5|6) for better readability? It's not even > shorter with the brackets. Or [4-6]) perhaps? It would not get any longer for later versions. ;) -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpfHuFjBQv0f.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/jscience

2015-12-07 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (07 Dec 2015) # Dead project with no revdeps. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/jscience -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpxjv9iSek0B.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New project: Crypto

2015-12-28 Thread James Le Cuirot
t it is really lacking compared to something like > Gmail. > I haven't tried the feature myself but K9 Mail, which is highly regarded, does it via APG on Android. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpZQv7sb95B6.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Goodbye Java on ppc32?

2016-01-09 Thread James Le Cuirot
of support that isn't really there. There are probably some packages that aren't typically associated with Java that will be affected by this. I haven't made a list but I suspect it doesn't contain anything majorly important. Thankfully LibreOffice no longer has a hard dependency on Java. Regards, -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpbe3C0ghkWz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Goodbye Java on ppc32?

2016-01-12 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:10:43 + James Le Cuirot wrote: > I'm mulling over the idea of dropping Java on 32-bit ppc. Having > personally used Gentoo on this hardware myself in the past, I've > resisted the temptation to drop it sooner but I think it's time to > thr

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-java/gjdoc

2016-01-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (14 Jan 2016) # Superseded by gnu-classpath. Removal in 30 days. dev-java/gjdoc -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpPhzrbhs11f.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Goodbye Java on ppc32?

2016-01-16 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:44:16 + James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:10:43 + > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > I'm mulling over the idea of dropping Java on 32-bit ppc. Having > > personally used Gentoo on this hardware myself in the past, I've >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Herd up for grabs: gpe

2016-01-17 Thread James Le Cuirot
reply till 2016-01-24, I will effectively > remove the herd and announce the packages that landed in maintainer- > -needed as a result. All that stuff got masked for removal by Pacho recently anyway. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpd5exlmUNbw.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 08/19] ebuild-maintenance: rewrite the text on adding binary files to the tree #558642

2016-01-24 Thread James Le Cuirot
esses them upon commit transparently." I think that's beside the point. Regular users fetch the tree with rsync, not git, and the limit is primarily there to avoid bloating that transfer. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpdXBSaJNATo.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword

2020-03-21 Thread James Le Cuirot
no recollection of apt taking > more than a few seconds to work out what it needs to do, or throwing an > error ) They also split out their packages a lot more than we do. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpp0vTUPxjE7.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last-rites: media-video/gtk-recordmydesktop

2020-03-23 Thread James Le Cuirot
media-video/simplescreenrecorder as a good alternative. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpLIMw17qzq3.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] qt5-build.eclass: support sysroot builds

2020-03-27 Thread James Le Cuirot
t guy but I am the cross guy. I'm not in a position to test this right now but it looks good and I love the simplicity of it. It's a hell of a lot simpler than Qt4 was. To be honest, we should be setting QMAKE_PKG_CONFIG regardless. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgppueAPzt7VC.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New global USE flag 'gles2-only'

2020-03-31 Thread James Le Cuirot
t; > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/627758 > [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ > ab302ac2ab641b1e82acad7d32308266 > [3] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/13742 > [4] https://github.com/gentoo/kde/pull/888 > [5] https://github.com/gentoo/qt/pull/210 +1 Disclaimer: I maintain 2 o

[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: games-fps/ut2003

2020-03-31 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:14:03 +0200 Jonas Stein wrote: > profiles: Mask games-fps/ut2003 for removal > > SRC_URI is dead AND RESTRICT=mirror is required > Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/715540 Fixed. Last-rites cancelled. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Lin

Re: [gentoo-dev] ceph's static-libs

2020-04-04 Thread James Le Cuirot
If the above paragraph is wrong, someone please correct me. :) -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpzFwxdMGt1r.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ceph's static-libs

2020-04-04 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 10:43:26 +0100 James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 08:12:09 +0200 > Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > > > I was trying to remove static-libs from hwloc and I noticed that the last > > bump of ceph is requiring hwloc:=[static-libs?] > > And I no

Re: [gentoo-dev] ceph's static-libs

2020-04-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 17:20:07 + Peter Stuge wrote: > James Le Cuirot wrote: > > Damn, I realised just as I hit send that there's a caveat here and > > that's sub-dependencies. If you're building a partially static binary > > then I think you're okay.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] meson.eclass: add MYMESONARGS variable

2020-04-08 Thread James Le Cuirot
# Source directory > "${EMESON_SOURCE:-${S}}" > I didn't mean for you to do this yourself so thank you very much indeed! You've done a nice job, I've tested it, and it works perfectly. Cheers, -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpM1UUdR8UAC.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] KEYWORDREQ and STABLEREQ keywords

2020-04-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
> > > Less noise is better, so I vote for 1. > > Wasn't aware KEYWORDREQ and STABLEREQ were useless, thats why I always > set them. Will it break any commonly used search scripts / settings? Me neither, must have missed that memo. Go for 1. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpw3dZfCiD2g.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild life cycle review

2020-04-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
ven counting the constant flood of largely automated bug reports we already get every day. I just do what I can. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp4N4f_TOjII.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilizations and src_test

2020-04-12 Thread James Le Cuirot
to fight it then just add RESTRICT="test" yourselves, maybe filtered on a particular USE flag if it only happens in specific situations. I think the QA team would back you up here? I understand the comments about only a few minor tests failing but if the maintainer doesn't want to skip

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] rpm.eclass: use BDEPEND for EAPI 7

2020-04-18 Thread James Le Cuirot
pp-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g" > +case "${EAPI:-0}" in > + [0-6]) DEPEND=">=app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g" ;; > + *) BDEPEND=">=app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g" ;; > +esac > > # @FUNCTION: rpm_unpack > # @USAGE: +1 -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpmzAsPzo17I.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] */*: downgrade m68k down to ~m68k

2020-04-21 Thread James Le Cuirot
ackages don't have consistent ~m68k keywords. I don't > think stable keywords have any use today. > > I will pass through and un-CC/close all STABLEREQ bugs where m68k > is CCed. Thanks, I think this was inevitable really. I still hope to create a new stage3 but not with s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Should NATTkA reject keywordreqs for packages with -arch (-*) keywords?

2020-05-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
; would ever be necessary it could easily be resolved via removing '-arch' > first or adding some extra hack. > > WDYT? Play it safe. -* is frequently used for binary packages where an arch will simply either work or it won't, with little likelihood of the situation changing. -arc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2020-05-28 Thread James Le Cuirot
media-libs/libv4l > * media-tv/v4l-utils I'll somewhat reluctantly take these as no one else has. They're loosely related to tvheadend, which I also maintain. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpurNYeQQwcU.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-libs/aldumb

2020-05-31 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (2020-05-31) # Now merged into media-libs/dumb with the allegro USE flag. This # package was added before EAPI 2 and USE-dependencies. media-libs/aldumb pgp_vyqIs4GOF.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/OpenBSD current status

2020-06-05 Thread James Le Cuirot
r uClibc-ng). I don't see why not. If I can cross-build Windows binaries on Linux then anything is possible! > My impression, from Gentoo website, was that (Net, Open, Free)BSD prefix > support was no longer active. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpFtl0wWxRG8.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Looking for a co-maintainer: games-fps/gzdoom

2020-06-08 Thread James Le Cuirot
in the short term. I've been using it on an almost daily basis recently! My new map only really works with GZDoom. 3D floors are awesome. ;) Cheers, -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpkLSR0yxhkq.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] */*: Mask Py2 only packages

2020-06-20 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:58:22 +0300 Azamat Hackimov wrote: > > games-emulation/openmsx > > git version migrated to meson and python3 Yeah, don't worry, this has been on my TODO for a while and I'll step it up the list. I was hoping they'd do a release but no such

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to set CXX compiler?

2020-07-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
whether to use ccache. Rather than patch it, start the build with: emake cc="$(tc-getCXX)" You'll probably need to do more to respect CXXFLAGS and such though. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpUk0gHCJfvA.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs

2020-09-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
gt; app-arch/unarj b This is going to be last-rited. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/694746. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpa_05luHXpS.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-arch/unarj

2020-09-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
# James Le Cuirot (2020-09-13) # License issues. app-arch/arj is a better alternative. Removal in 30 # days. See bug #694746. app-arch/unarj -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpz225rDDqkd.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-board/spider

2020-10-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
# Alexey Sokolov (2020-10-03) # Package with no available HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI and multiple compilation issues. # Bug #741468, removal in 30 days. games-board/spider -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpzcRSFp1vbJ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages & projects up for grabs due to jer's retirement

2020-11-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
the fancy features. > www-client/vivaldi > www-client/vivaldi-snapshot I'll take these but it may take me some time to get some kind of automation going for the frequent bumps involved. I know that Opera is a similar package but I really don't want it. -- James Le Cuirot (chew

Re: [gentoo-dev] Pushing to distfiles?

2020-11-14 Thread James Le Cuirot
I'm not claiming this has never actually happened but I use these GitHub tarballs *a lot* and I don't recall ever seeing it. Does anyone know for sure that it's happened in, say, the last 3 years? It's a lot of extra work for a problem that may no longer exist or is so rare that

[gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH 2/3] meson.eclass: use meson-array script

2020-12-11 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:17:43 -0500 Mike Gilbert wrote: > This allows python-exec to pick a suitable interpreter when > /usr/bin/python is missing. > > Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/759433 > Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert > --- > eclass/meson.eclass | 100 +---

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] dev-util/meson: install meson-array script

2020-12-17 Thread James Le Cuirot
repared to deal with the fall out if it broke. Now floppym is improving the situation anyway and fixing the ebuild too. I give my thanks to him. Job done? -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpPbvZE71UX_.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: media-libs/jpeg

2020-12-30 Thread James Le Cuirot
jpeg-turbo can be built to be ABI-compatible with jpeg-7 and jpeg-8, though not the current jpeg-9. I added a turbo-based media-libs/jpeg-compat for version 8 to steam-overlay. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpAmU8tbJTZQ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] systemd.eclass: remove SYSROOT from pkg-config output

2021-01-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
didn't do it in one line? I forget if EPREFIX is normalised to be / rather thank blank. d=${d#${SYSROOT%/}/${EPREFIX#/}} -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgpTmn9Lvd_4Y.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] systemd.eclass: remove SYSROOT from pkg-config output

2021-01-03 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 12:52:08 + James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 20:09:04 -0500 > Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > When cross-compiling, users will typically have > > PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT=${SYSROOT} defined via pkg-config wrapper. > > > > When PKG

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] systemd.eclass: remove SYSROOT from pkg-config output

2021-01-04 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 10:16:49 -0500 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 7:52 AM James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 20:09:04 -0500 > > Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > > When cross-compiling, users will typically have > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] systemd.eclass: remove SYSROOT from pkg-config output

2021-01-06 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 19:28:37 -0500 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 6:45 PM Mike Gilbert wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 6:18 PM James Le Cuirot wrote: > > > $ PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=/foo pkg-config --variable=udevdir udev > > > /lib/udev &g

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eclass/lua.eclass: remove EPREFIX from exported paths

2021-01-07 Thread James Le Cuirot
es used for installing too. luaexpat uses it for both! If this is returned unprefixed then luaexpat and similar should prepend ${ESYSROOT} when building and ${ED} when installing. I did suggest that you explicitly whether the paths are prefixed or not in the function descriptions so please do that. As discussed, I'll get back to you on the other sysroot issue. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp2lt1tHBLfK.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Trying to locate and remove unused dev- & media-libs?

2021-01-08 Thread James Le Cuirot
be used for other old or Debian-oriented binary packages too. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer pgp25epsm8vEo.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eclass/lua-utils.eclass: remove EPREFIX from exported module paths

2021-01-13 Thread James Le Cuirot
include the SYSROOT and prefix. It is slightly odd that this differs from lua_get_include_dir() but I cannot find any examples where lua_get_shared_lib() is used in an install phase. Can you confirm that following this, you will go around and correct all the ebuilds that use lua_get_include_dir

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