Bug 577372 – GLEP 42 News-Item-Format 2.0 needs to be implemented

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Ulrich Müller 2016-03-14 11:23:56 UTC]

The GLEP 42 update for News-Item-Format 2.0 has been accepted by the council, see bug 568068. The following features need to be implemented in Portage:

- News-Item-Format: Accept 2.* (in addition to current 1.*)
- Content-Type: Don't require this header in format 2.*
- Display-If-Installed: Allow EAPI 5 dependency specifications in format 2.*
- Display-If-Profile: Terminal "/*" operator is a wildcard in format 2.*

[Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2016-04-25 09:55:22 UTC]

> - Content-Type: Don't require this header in format 2.*

If I read GLEP 42, in format 2.0 this is not only no longer required, but even no longer allowed.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2016-04-25 10:15:01 UTC]

(In reply to Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn from comment #1)
> > - Content-Type: Don't require this header in format 2.*
> 
> If I read GLEP 42, in format 2.0 this is not only no longer required, but
> even no longer allowed.

Yes and no, since Portage must ignore any unrecognised header (like Content-Type in format 2.0):

"[...] tools handling these news items must ignore any unrecognised header."
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:42#News_Item_Files

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2016-09-02 20:53:15 UTC]

It's kind of a moot point; the portage code never checked Content-Type in the first place.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2016-09-15 02:05:58 UTC]

In the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=0cb7426796b2fb082f9176b7b08d08b21b5c86bb
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=67fcbccd1b60b599e4e5dcc97f2959164ba6a7eb
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=216297a9a7e91e48b74ef796b6642fd8c15085fc

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2017-02-10 18:46:58 UTC]

Fixed in portage-2.3.3.