Bug 160102

Summary:	media-tv/mythtv : please remove debug.eclass usage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	55708

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-04 14:43:15 UTC

The following ebuilds/eclasses currently inherits debug.eclass:

./media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-0.19_p10505.ebuild:inherit flag-o-matic multilib eutils debug qt3
./media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-0.20_p11626.ebuild:inherit mythtv flag-o-matic multilib eutils debug qt3
./media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-0.20_p12172.ebuild:inherit mythtv flag-o-matic multilib eutils debug qt3
./media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-0.20_p12288.ebuild:inherit mythtv flag-o-matic multilib eutils debug qt3
./media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-0.20_p12288-r1.ebuild:inherit mythtv flag-o-matic multilib eutils debug qt3
./media-tv/mythtv/mythtv-0.20_p12325.ebuild:inherit mythtv flag-o-matic multilib eutils debug qt3

As per bug #55708 you can see that the current debug.eclass is a QA mess, and I'm going to replace it soon with a dummy version.
The debug useflag should not mess with the user's *FLAGS, but rather relate to the debug codepaths of a package (asserts, extra output, and so on). If an user wants a debuggable system, he should follow the backtraces guide (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml) that contains all the needed info.

For this reason, please remove debug eclass from inherit line, add debug to IUSE if your package has a way to enable/disable debug codepaths, and set this bug resolved. Please do it for _every revisions of your package_.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-04 20:22:22 UTC

I fixed this on behalf of Doug.