commit 538ebda96d47ee65043d1d9195f0fec1c4175712 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: Wed Oct 12 19:27:00 2022 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: Wed Oct 12 19:32:02 2022 dev-vcs/git-filter-repo: misc tweaks - Depend on same git version as $(ver_cut 1-2) (we could arguably do 1-3, but..) - Use python_prepare_all - Tidy up PKG-INFO a tiny bit wrt indentation - Fix README.md installation Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> dev-vcs/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo-2.38.0-r1.ebuild | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) But filter-repo should not depend on the same git version as ver_cut anything at all. Because upstream filter-repo explicitly includes backwards compatibility with old versions of git, so you don't *have* to upgrade git in order to install filter-repo at all. If anything, it should have RDEPEND=" >=dev-vcs/git-2.22 <=dev-vcs/git-$(ver_cut 1-2)* " Since it "cannot guarantee" compatibility with newer versions of git. But we don't usually pessimize like that... Per https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo#prerequisites filter-repo requires: git >= 2.22.0 at a minimum; some features require git >= 2.24.0 or later python3 >= 3.6 The commit in question "broke everything", because before that it "correctly" depended on git >= 2.24.0, which is actually a bit much but still relatively quite neutral. Currently, git-filter-repo has no stable keywords. I can try to accept ~amd64 for it but it was upgraded to 2.45.0 and old versions were dropped. git 2.45.0 is still ~arch so I would have to opt in to an unstable version of git just so I can install a niche tool at all. This is not an ideal user experience.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=94679559df78c78cab856cd4be980b8e3d04d5fd commit 94679559df78c78cab856cd4be980b8e3d04d5fd Author: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-08-20 22:24:03 +0000 Commit: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-08-20 22:24:03 +0000 dev-vcs/git-filter-repo: Rem git dep ver, make user exp more ideal Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/938241 Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> dev-vcs/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo-2.45.0.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
