This is a Go library/module. Golang based packages (i.e. podman buildah) use this module vendored-in statically. Thus removing need of this package in Gentoo repo. So this package is never going to be any package's BDEPEND or RDEPEND. Request to remove it & also RIP :(
I don't see how this is fixed. The CI failure on your PR was just because you need to cleanup OldPackageUpdate in profiles/.
There is no need to remove package anymore. I found a way to make it useful. Basically app-containers/containers-common has been missing in repo https://bugs.gentoo.org/907805 so I decided to work on it. app-containers/containers-common is gonna depend on app-containers/containers-storage app-containers/containers-image app-containers/containers-shortnames just to pull default config & man pages. Almost done with PR https://github.com/rahilarious/gentoo/tree/containers-common. Coming soon
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2941140a0760ca358eecc44391a79479f024a3de commit 2941140a0760ca358eecc44391a79479f024a3de Author: Rahil Bhimjiani <rahil3108@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2023-09-21 18:34:24 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-09-21 22:16:19 +0000 app-containers/containers-common: add 0.56.0 and live Common configs & docs for Containers eco-system (i.e. podman buildah skopeo...) Go realm, executables are all in compiled, static, tidy in one binary but docs & configs...OMG all over the place. Spent whole day coding all these (such noob, I know), but was fun & fulfilling. Once this is merged the foundation of podman-stack is built, so will proceed to update frontend packages of eco-system. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/907805 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/904433 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/914456 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/907804 Signed-off-by: Rahil Bhimjiani <rahil3108@gmail.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/32976 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-containers/containers-common/Manifest | 1 + .../containers-common-0.56.0.ebuild | 76 ++ .../containers-common-9999.ebuild | 76 ++ .../containers-common/files/default.yaml | 28 + .../containers-common/files/fix-warnings.patch | 24 + app-containers/containers-common/files/mounts.conf | 3 + app-containers/containers-common/files/policy.json | 14 + .../containers-common/files/seccomp.json | 1051 ++++++++++++++++++++ app-containers/containers-common/metadata.xml | 17 + 9 files changed, 1290 insertions(+)