Bug 426550 – x11-misc/transset-1.0.0: incomplete man page

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Dominique Michel 2012-07-14 08:24:50 UTC]

x11-misc/transset-df have been masked because another software did an update. If I follow this logic, I would mask xine with every mplayer update, mask pulseaudio with every jack-audio-connection-kit update, and mask firefox with every konqueror update.

x11-misc/transset-df and x11-apps/transset are 2 different pieces of software with different features. 

Also, even if they made a new transset version, they didn't change the features of this software. A comparaison of both show us than transset-df can do what transset can do, but that transset just caanot do most of the transset-df features.

In conclusion, if you absolutly want to remove one of those software from portage, remove the one that have the less features, that is apps/transset. I also think that the best thing to do would be to keep both of them.

[Comment 1 Dominique Michel 2012-07-14 08:26:34 UTC]

# emerge -a transset-df

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

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "transset-df" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- x11-misc/transset-df-6::x-test (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Samuli Suominen <[e-mail]> (25 Jun 2012)
# Replaced by the new 1.0.0 release of x11-apps/transset.
# Removal in 30 days.

- x11-misc/transset-df-6::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

[Comment 2 Dominique Michel 2012-07-16 15:08:38 UTC]

In fact, the transset-df features have been merged into transset. The problem is than the man page is not updated with the changes. As the new features are not documented into the man page, I didn't even try to run a transset-df command like "transset --help".

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7089756.html#7089756

[Comment 3 Dominique Michel 2012-07-16 15:49:48 UTC]

Created attachment 318328 [details]
Updated man page

Updated man page with the new features.

I also changed bugzilla url. It is possible to right click to open the link from the console now.

[Comment 4 Dominique Michel 2012-07-16 16:22:29 UTC]

Created attachment 318342 [details, diff]
patch for updating the man page

This patch update the man page with the new features.

It also fix the bugzilla url that work now woth the contextual menu of the console.

[Comment 5 Dominique Michel 2012-07-16 16:27:58 UTC]

Created attachment 318344 [details, diff]
diff for transset-1.0.0-r1.ebuild

This diff is for making a 1.0.0-r1 ebuild that work with the man page patch.

[Comment 6 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2012-07-18 19:20:30 UTC]

This is about transset now, not transset-df.

[Comment 7 Matt Turner 2017-01-29 01:35:07 UTC]

I think all of this was fixed by

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/transset/commit/?id=fc4bf3cda6d14cac9272f8399bb6dc614c1ef956

which is in transset-1.0.1.