Bug 279578 – dev-python/kiwi-1.9.26 version bump

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ronny Pfannschmidt 2009-07-29 12:29:41 UTC]

dito

the portage version is missing about a year of development

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge kiwi

[Comment 1 James Earl Spahlinger 2009-07-29 20:50:19 UTC]

We may want to consider a bump up to version 1.9.25 even, .26 may be too new to request a bump on yet. According to their site we are a year out of date. 

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-08-04 03:23:38 UTC]

We will add the 1.9.26.

[Comment 3 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-08-04 03:30:14 UTC]

Fixed.

[Comment 4 DavidH 2009-08-14 15:27:10 UTC]

The recent version bump triggers a dependency on app-admin/eselect-python-20090804, which is still masked.  Is this intended/known?  Obviously kiwi itself is still masked, but I'm reluctant to go non-stable on something as core as eselect-python without good reason.

[Comment 5 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-08-14 15:36:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)

They aren't masked.

[Comment 6 DavidH 2009-08-14 15:40:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> 
> They aren't masked.

Sorry, didn't mean to say masked.  They're both ~x86'd.

[Comment 7 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-08-14 15:44:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)

dev-python/kiwi doesn't have any stable version and it can depend on any unstable package.

[Comment 8 DavidH 2009-08-14 15:53:56 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> 
> dev-python/kiwi doesn't have any stable version and it can depend on any
> unstable package.

Yes I'm aware of that, which brings us back to my original question: is it intentional or inadvertent that the kiwi version bump depend on an unstable version of eselect-python?

I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to keep the installed set of unstable packages to a minimum, which is something I've come to understand is considered a best practice for administering gentoo systems.

Some stuff seems to loiter perpetually as unstable, and it can become a slippery slope where packages that are functionally stable but not designated as such end up tugging in things that are legitimately and actually disruptively unstable, and they do so merely because they've set up permanent residence on the wrong side of the '~' wall.

[Comment 9 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2009-08-14 15:59:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Yes I'm aware of that, which brings us back to my original question: is it
> intentional or inadvertent that the kiwi version bump depend on an unstable
> version of eselect-python?

It is intentional.

[Comment 10 DavidH 2009-08-14 16:31:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> 
> It is intentional.

Thanks for you time.  The rationale is presumably left as an exercise for the reader.

Cheers!