Bug 226323 – =dev-python/pygtk-2.12.0: autotools are being rebuilt through maintainer-mode

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-06-13 12:31:17 UTC]

Rebuilding autotools through maintainer-mode is _not_ good, because it usually means you forget to add dependencies, and they'll magically use the same version as used by upstream, which might not be what the user have installed at all.

If you patch Makefile.am or configure.in/configure.ac you _have to_ use autotools.eclass and eautomake/eautoreconf. Exceptions are granted _only_ for system packages that would make it impossible to run autotools during stagebuilding.

Please fix your package.

[Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-08-23 10:42:03 UTC]

this concerns the 2.12.0 series with extrafuncs patch, it should die as soon as arches stabilize 2.12.1-r2.

[Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp 2008-08-30 00:21:04 UTC]

This in the ebuild looks like trouble:

        use doc || sed -e 's/\(SUBDIRS =.*\) docs$/\1/' -i "${S}"/Makefile.am

Can someone please explain why the maintainer-mode kicks in for this package, while for most of the rest patching Makefile.am/in together this does not happen?

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-11-29 23:24:59 UTC]

@arm, sh, hello guys, we are still waiting for you to mark stable pygtk-2.12.1-r2 ebuild to kill this one from the tree. Thanks for considering.

[Comment 4 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-11-30 12:20:35 UTC]

*** Bug 226719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2009-02-21 19:41:23 UTC]

arm/sh stable

[Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-02-22 17:59:19 UTC]

Cleaned up dead old revision. Thanks for reporting.