Bug 554844 – g-octave/miscellaneous-1.2.0 wants to downgrade octave-4.0.0 to 3.8.2

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Juergen Rose 2015-07-14 09:31:11 UTC]

'emerge -pvt --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=30 @world' says:

root@impala:/root(22)# emerge -pvt --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=30 @world

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] media-tv/xawtv-3.95-r3::gentoo [3.95-r2::x-portage] USE="X alsa dv motif nls opengl quicktime xext xv zvbi -aalib -lirc (-mmx%)" CPU_FLAGS_X86="(-mmx)" 0 KiB
[nomerge       ] gnome-base/gnome-3.16.0:2.0::gentoo  USE="accessibility bluetooth cdr classic cups extras" 
[nomerge       ]  gnome-base/gdm-3.16.2::gentoo  USE="accessibility introspection ipv6 systemd tcpd -audit -branding -debug -fprint -plymouth (-selinux) -smartcard {-test} -wayland -xinerama" 
[nomerge       ]   gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3.16.2-r1::gentoo  USE="colord cups policykit short-touchpad-timeout udev -debug -networkmanager (-openrc-force) -smartcard {-test} -wayland" INPUT_DEVICES="-wacom" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 -python3_4" 
[nomerge       ]    net-print/cups-2.0.3::gentoo  USE="X acl dbus java kerberos pam python ssl systemd threads usb -debug -lprng-compat (-selinux) -static-libs -xinetd -zeroconf" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" LINGUAS="de fr ru -ca -cs -es -it -ja -pt_BR" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 
[ebuild     U  ]     app-text/poppler-0.34.0:0/53::gentoo [0.33.0-r1:0/52::gentoo] USE="cairo curl cxx doc introspection jpeg jpeg2k lcms png qt4 qt5 tiff utils -cjk -debug" 1,578 KiB
[nomerge       ] g-octave/miscellaneous-1.2.0::g-octave 
[ebuild     UD ]  sci-mathematics/octave-3.8.2:0/3.8.2::gentoo [4.0.0:0/4.0.0::gentoo] USE="X curl doc fftw glpk gnuplot gui hdf5 imagemagick java opengl postscript qhull qrupdate readline sparse zlib -jit -static-libs" 17,417 KiB



But I do not understand why, i.e. I can not find any limitation in the g-octave ebuilds":

root@impala:/root(25)# qlist -Iv g-octave
app-portage/g-octave-0.4.1-r4
g-octave/general-1.3.2
g-octave/miscellaneous-1.2.0
g-octave/nan-2.3.1
[2]+  Done                    emacs -i $GEOMETRY $NO_DOS_CONV -name "$BASENAME" "$*"
root@impala:/root(26)# grep DEPEND -U2 /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/general/general-1.3.2.ebuild  
IUSE=""

DEPEND=""
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
        >=sci-mathematics/octave-3.4.3"
root@impala:/root(27)# grep DEPEND -U2 /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/miscellaneous/miscellaneous-1.2.0.ebuild 
IUSE=""

DEPEND="sys-libs/libtermcap-compat
        sci-calculators/units"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
        >=sci-mathematics/octave-3.6.0
        >=g-octave/general-1.3.1"
root@impala:/root(28)# grep DEPEND -U2 /var/lib/g-octave/g-octave/nan/nan-2.3.1.ebuild 
IUSE=""

DEPEND=""
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
        >sci-mathematics/octave-2.9.0"

[Comment 1 Juergen Rose 2015-07-14 09:31:41 UTC]

Reemerging g-octave/miscellaneous-1.2.0 does not help.