Bug 237936 – Stable version, app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r7, removed from portage tree - mistake?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description ta2002 2008-09-17 14:27:20 UTC]

After emerge --sync, emerge -Dpuv asks to downgrade.

The removal of this version looks like an error from my perspective (it has a patch added to the prior version), but what do I know?

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-09-17 14:29:42 UTC]

http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/app-arch/rpm2targz/rpm2targz-9.0-r7.ebuild?hideattic=0&rev=1.10&view=log

"old/broken" is what the commit message says.

[Comment 2 Jouni Kosonen 2008-09-17 15:39:43 UTC]

That's what it says alright, but it was the stable version from Jun 2008 and after the removal the latest stable version is 9.0-r6 from Sep 2007.

Mostly this looks like an error because there is no corresponding mention in the package ChangeLog, just a minor change to rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g.

[Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-09-17 15:50:00 UTC]

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[Comment 4 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-09-17 15:52:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> That's what it says alright, but it was the stable version from Jun 2008 and
> after the removal the latest stable version is 9.0-r6 from Sep 2007.
> 
> Mostly this looks like an error because there is no corresponding mention in
> the package ChangeLog, just a minor change to rpm2targz-9.0.0.3g.
> 

vapier, was this a mistake or on purpose? I generally don't doubt other devs but Comment #2 is indeed a compelling argument.

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2008-09-18 01:20:20 UTC]

meant to punt -r6, not -r7