[openstack-dev] [packaging] liberty doesn't have caps on deps

Matthew Thode prometheanfire at gentoo.org
Thu Oct 15 19:01:06 UTC 2015


So, this is my perspective in packing liberty for Gentoo.

We can have multiple versions of a package available to install, because
of this we generally directly translate the valid dependency versions
from requirements.

this
    oslo.concurrency>=2.3.0 # Apache-2.0
becomes this
    >=dev-python/oslo-concurrency-2.3.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]

Now what happens when I package something from mitaka (2.7.0 in this
case would be mitaka).  It's undefined behaviour as far as I know.

Basically, I can see no reason why the policy of caps changed from kilo
to liberty, it was actually nice to package for liberty, I can see this
going very bad very quick.

Where are my caps?

-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)



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