cvs doesn't handle binary files for log well, that's why it has always been "forbidden" to commit binary files in gentoo-x86 if your package is using tarball in files/, just upload it to gentoo mirrors with unique name. if your package is using e.g. PNG file in files/ directory, you can convert it to .xpm by using imagemagick's convert (xpm is not a binary format, unlike png) or you can upload it to mirrors as well.
This bug is still open because gentoo-x86 is still full of .png (binary image format) files. TODO: Need to do a `find` and open bugs to maintainers.
To put some official context to this bug: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 "Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the Portage CVS tree."
I wrote a script that now runs daily on qa-reports.gentoo.org [1] that finds binary and empty files in portage. Almost all have open bugs now. [1] http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/find-binary-files.txt
(In reply to Samuli Suominen from comment #2) > To put some official context to this bug: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=1 Updated URLs for policy references: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-maintenance/index.html#what-%28not%29-to-put-in-the-portage-tree "Things that do *not* belong in the tree: [...] – Non-text files" https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/tree/index.html#what-belongs-in-the-tree%3F "Also, you should not add binary (non-ASCII) files to the Portage CVS tree."
