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Bug 659834

Summary: repoman: show error/warning when helpers are banned/deprecated in relevant EAPI
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component: RepomanAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: normal CC: sam
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2018-07-02 10:23:23 UTC
Sometimes we got bugs like bug 659676

Many of the are caused by developer committing an EAPI bump for forgetting to check for some "exotic" USE flag combination that is conditionally calling an old helper that is no longer available. As a consequence, people hit them as a build failure.

It would be better if repoman would directly catch the banned/deprecated helpers calls. That affects currently to this commands:
https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-122001r3

Thanks
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-07-12 03:18:42 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.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-07-12 03:21:56 UTC
pkgcheck certainly has BannedEapiCommand.