Bug 628466 – portage-2.3.8 fails on empty dependency group

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 370565
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Ulrich Müller 2017-08-21 06:20:28 UTC]

Portage fails when it encounters a dependency like "|| ( )" or "( )":

$ ebuild foo-1.ebuild unpack
Error(s) in metadata for 'app-misc/foo-1':
RDEPEND: expected: dependency string, got: ')', token 2

That behaviour is incorrect. PMS states in https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-810008.2.3:
"An empty any-of group counts as being matched."


Same problem with repoman-2.3.3:

RepoMan scours the neighborhood...
  dependency.syntax [fatal]     2
   app-misc/foo/foo-1.ebuild: RDEPEND: expected: dependency string, got: ')', token 2
   app-misc/foo/foo-1.ebuild: RDEPEND: expected: dependency string, got: ')', token 2
Please fix these important QA issues first.
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[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2017-08-21 06:21:48 UTC]

Created attachment 489888 [details]
foo-1.ebuild

Minimal example ebuild to reproduce the problem.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2017-08-22 13:16:30 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 370565 ***