Hello A problem we hit every day is stabilization requests that are not going on because maintainers forget to run "repoman full" to verify all needed deps are already stable. Then, we need to manually run repoman full for them, go thought the deps and repeat the process again and again. This is a huge manual work. The ideal solution would be to be able to make repoman generate that recursive lists as emerge --autounmask is able to but, as this could be too difficult to do, maybe another option (not so great but still welcomed) could be to have an option to simply save in a file the missing packages (without versions if that makes it easier). The idea is: 1. Example: >>> Creating Manifest for /home/pacho/gentoo-x86/dev-python/PyFoam dependency.bad 40 dev-python/PyFoam/PyFoam-0.5.4-r2.ebuild: DEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/13.0) ['sci-libs/vtk[python_targets_python2_7(-)?,-python_single_target_python2_7(-)]'] dev-python/PyFoam/PyFoam-0.5.4-r2.ebuild: RDEPEND: amd64(default/linux/amd64/13.0) ['sci-libs/vtk[python_targets_python2_7(-)?,-python_single_target_python2_7(-)]'] [...] and a ton of output 2. If we could save in a file simply "sci-libs/vtk $arches" it would be still a nice improvement for us to later run a script, keyword that deps properly (once we manually specify a version, as I guess repoman cannot do that... even if emerge is able with "autounmask") and re-run it. Well... this is only an idea, maybe you know about an easier way to achieve the goal of being able to generate the list of needed stuff for a package to get stabilized in a more automatic way :/ Thanks a lot
This subject was recently raised on the gentoo-dev mailing list: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/2a2927609d61db1c0f0ba816602692e0
repoman support has been removed per bug 835013. Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.
