Summary of Gentoo council meeting 10 Jun 2014



Roll call
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Present: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm
Absent: scarabeus, williamh (slacker)


Approve Preliminary EAPI 6 Features
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These were discussed/voted in blocks as suggested by ulm in discussion,
but I'm going to split them up in the summary for clarity.  See the log
for the details of how things went:

get_libdir()
bug #463586
Used in econf, but so far not available as separate PM function
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

einstalldocs()
bug #459692
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

Query function for IUSE_EFFECTIVE (or IUSE?)
bug #449862
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

nonfatal die()
bug #451938
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

Allow empty DOCS variable
bug #463736
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

Directory support for DOCS
bug #481980
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

Unpack .txz
bug #458102
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

Case-fold extensions in unpack
bug #476730
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

unpack() accept absolute paths
bug #483244
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

Bash 4.2
bug #431340
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

failglob in global scope
bug #463822
(Council agreed on failglob in global scope only - not local scope.)
Aye: blueness, dberkholz, dilfridge, rich0, ulm

PATCHES support in default src_prepare
bug #463692
Aye: dilfridge, rich0
Nay: blueness, dberkholz
Abstain: ulm
This motion was defeated.

There was extensive discussion on user patches, and we'll continue on
the list before voting next week.


Meeting called and will be continued on 17 Jun 2014 at 19:00 UTC.

Summary submitted by Richard Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>