Bug 595880

Summary:	repoman should warn when the same dependency is specified multiple times in *DEPEND
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Repoman	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	floppym
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-10-02 09:00:41 UTC

I have just seen one ebuild that was setting exactly the same dev-libs/libpcre in the same DEPEND=() chunk.

Maybe repoman could warn when this mistake is done

Thanks a lot!

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2016-10-02 13:22:58 UTC

Why? That should not cause any problem in dependency resolution.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-10-02 13:30:29 UTC

Well, for having more tidy ebuilds... a bit like the warning about trailing spaces in ebuilds

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2016-10-02 13:38:12 UTC

If we do something like this, we need to ensure the check occurs before USE conditionals are removed (otherwise dep needed by two or more USE flags separately would trigger this).

However, I think this would work as well if we encourage developers to sort dependencies.

Comment 4 Sam James archtester

2022-07-12 03:18:33 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.