659834 – repoman: show error/warning when helpers are banned/deprecated in relevant EAPI

Bug 659834 - repoman: show error/warning when helpers are banned/deprecated in relevant EAPI

Summary: repoman: show error/warning when helpers are banned/deprecated in relevant EAPI

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Repoman (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2018-07-02 10:23 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified:	2022-07-12 03:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-07-02 10:23:23 UTC

Sometimes we got bugs like bug 659676

Many of the are caused by developer committing an EAPI bump for forgetting to check for some "exotic" USE flag combination that is conditionally calling an old helper that is no longer available. As a consequence, people hit them as a build failure.

It would be better if repoman would directly catch the banned/deprecated helpers calls. That affects currently to this commands:
https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-122001r3

Thanks

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-07-12 03:18:42 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2022-07-12 03:21:56 UTC

pkgcheck certainly has BannedEapiCommand.