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Bug 237904 - >=libxklavier-3.5 postinst has deprecated -X flag for revdep-rebuild
Summary: >=libxklavier-3.5 postinst has deprecated -X flag for revdep-rebuild
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Lowest trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2008-09-17 07:46 UTC by Kundai Midzi
Modified: 2009-07-20 20:53 UTC (History)
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Small patch fixing problem. (libxklavier-3.5.ebuild.patch,453 bytes, patch)
2008-09-17 07:50 UTC, Kundai Midzi 		Details | Diff
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Description Kundai Midzi 2008-09-17 07:46:58 UTC 
Starting with libxklavier-3.5, the postinst function informs about using revdep-rebuild to rebuild affected libraries. In the description, it is suggested that the -X flag is passed to revdep-rebuild; however, -X is a deprecated flag (from what I can tell, since gentoolkit-0.2.3.1).
Comment 1 Kundai Midzi 2008-09-17 07:50:29 UTC 
Created attachment 165621 [details, diff]
Small patch fixing problem.

It's not clear whether the omission of -X results in any loss of functionality; i.e, no replacement flag is specified.
Comment 2 Kundai Midzi 2008-09-17 17:49:16 UTC 
wrong priority.
Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-09-20 23:12:00 UTC 
in fact this flag is specified for compatibility with old versions of revdep-rebuild, not sure when it'll be safe to remove it from einfo's.

maybe tools-portage has a word for us on this one ?
Comment 4 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-09-21 06:42:11 UTC 
It doesn't hurt anything to specify -X in the einfo.

It is deprecated in the gentoolkit-0.2.4 series, since that is now the default behaviour. I'll be requesting that gentoolkit-0.2.4.2 be marked stable at the end of the month. After it goes stable, it should be fine to change the einfo.
Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-20 20:53:20 UTC 
Dropped -X from every ebuild.