Bug 906128

Summary:	[Tracker] Drop remaining non-PMS helpers
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	Core - Ebuild Support	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416719 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259422
Whiteboard:	Ban helpers after 2023-12-31
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	102297, 899898, 906129, 906156
Bug Blocks:

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2023-05-11 09:11:02 UTC

The following helpers in bin/ebuild-helpers are not defined by PMS.
Quote: "[They] are reserved for package manager use and may not be used or relied upon by ebuilds:"

- prepall, prepalldocs, prepallinfo, prepallman:
  These have been banned (i.e. they die unconditionally).

- prepallstrip, prepstrip:
  For some reason, these die only in EAPI 7 and later.
  Probably should be changed to die unconditionally.
  Last usage removed from Gentoo repo on 2019-04-14.

- prepinfo:
  Outputs a deprecation warning. Could be banned when bug 899898 is fixed.
  Last usage removed from Gentoo repo on 2018-11-22.

- prepman:
  Outputs a deprecation warning.
  Last usage removed from Gentoo repo on 2019-04-14.

- portageq:
  *No* deprecation warning.
  Last usage removed from Gentoo repo on 2020-07-27.

Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2023-05-12 17:42:42 UTC

A branch with the final bans is here (merge after 2023-12-31):
https://github.com/ulm/portage/tree/ban-helpers