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Bug 906128 - [Tracker] Drop remaining non-PMS helpers
Summary: [Tracker] Drop remaining non-PMS helpers
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Ebuild Support (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
URL:
Whiteboard: Ban helpers after 2023-12-31
Keywords: Tracker
Depends on: 102297 899898 906129 906156
Blocks:
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Reported: 2023-05-11 09:11 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2023-11-28 09:03 UTC (History)
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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