As usual no talking in here please. If you find a package failing because of flex-2.6.2 please file a new bug and make it block this one.
*** Bug 600434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please apply the patch to restore compat.
(In reply to Johannes Huber from comment #2) this is a tracker bug, not a place to make requests. if you want changes for the flex package, please file dedicated bugs.
commit 2601a5c0e5304ddb0b9b1d608b5b12ce04dc3a90 Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Dec 30 22:18:40 2016 sys-devel/flex: Bump to version 2.6.3 Removed completely broken 2.6.2 version. Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1 Unfortunately flex-2.6.3 still breaks wine-1.9.20 (dunno about later versions as wine maintainers are a bunch of slackers) so I keep the package.mask for >=sys-devel/flex-2.6.2 in place.
(In reply to Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) from comment #4) > commit 2601a5c0e5304ddb0b9b1d608b5b12ce04dc3a90 > Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> > Date: Fri Dec 30 22:18:40 2016 > > sys-devel/flex: Bump to version 2.6.3 > > Removed completely broken 2.6.2 version. > > Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1 > > > Unfortunately flex-2.6.3 still breaks wine-1.9.20 (dunno about later > versions as wine maintainers are a bunch of slackers) so I keep the > package.mask for >=sys-devel/flex-2.6.2 in place. I think I know what is wrong with wine. I'll check the newest upstream version and supply a patch for 1.9.20 within 48 hours.
All reported bugs have been fixed.
Reopening... we still have fallout...