@DerDakon you mentioned earlier that you didn't know much about Python, but you're pretty much the only recent contributor to the project. Who do you think could be in good position, in terms of Python skills and project knowledge, to review this PR?

I have this patched on my local build machines and will test if it works, that will hopefully be enough.

This does not set the correct useflags for rdeps, no? You could look on the rdeps of bug 659234 for hppa for the moment.

Hum, really? From what I understand of the code, the usecombis.py unit is exclusively used for usedeps.sh scripts. The rdeps.sh scripts don't seem to use usecombis.py at all. I don't see much of a difference between rdeps scripts generated on master and on this PR.

It's no regression, it's just this-is-still-wrong. The rdep script asks the online service for which use flags are needed to test an rdep, but doesn't calculate the flags from there.

To be sure: are you expecting this PR to solve all outstanding issues?

No, surely not. My test is e.g. bug 671044, which has a test for kvazaar, that needs static-libs. Shouldn't that work with this patch? The additional fixes for rdeps are nice to get, but could be in a separate PR. My hope was that it is similar enough to this code that this comes together with this.

I see what you mean: tatt injects test through --test. If the test USE flag isn't enabled when tatt is ran (when the script is generated), the USE flag combinations aren't going to restrict themselves (because portage, at the time tatt runs, doesn't have test enabled for the target package).

This is a further bug that can be fixed, yes. However, you can verify that this PR fixes something by enabling test for kvazaar on your machine when you run tatt on the very same bug. If you run it on the master branch, you'll see that you get a -static-libs run. If you run it on my PR branch, you'll see that it the -static-libs run is ignored.

I can't see a difference between the unpatched and the patched version. Am I missing something essential?

The difference is that, if you enable FEATURE=test, this PR is going to properly eliminate the -static-libs from bug 671044's run, something that the master branch doesn't do (even if it has FEATURE=test)

No, it doesn't, in fact both have no use flags set. Read again or look into the ebuild:

REQUIRED_USE="test? ( static-libs )"

It should add static-libs.

I know.

My wild guess is that you're not running the version of tatt you think you're running. You could verify by inserting an assert 0 somewhere important: if tatt continues to work, then you're not running the right code. Here's my full output so we can compare:

$ cat /etc/portage/package.env
media-libs/kvazaar test
$ ./env/bin/tatt -b 671044
Bugnumber:  671044
Stabilization bug detected.
Jobname: kvazaar-671044
Found the following package atom : =media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1
Unmasked =media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1 in /etc/portage/package.keywords/archtest
  =media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1: ignoring invalid USE flag combination {'test'}
Success Report script written to kvazaar-671044-success.sh
Commit script written to kvazaar-671044-commit.sh
$ cat kvazaar-671044-useflags.sh
#!/bin/bash
#USE-Flag build tests for job kvazaar-671044

trap "echo 'signal captured, exiting the entire script...'; exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM

export TATT_TEST_TYPE="use"
export TATT_REPORTFILE="kvazaar-671044.report"
export TATT_BUILDLOGDIR=""
export TATT_EMERGEOPTS=""

source "/home/vdupras/src/tatt/templates/tatt_functions.sh"

echo -e "USE tests started on $(date)\n" >> kvazaar-671044.report

# Code for =media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1
 tatt_test_pkg --test "=media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1"
USE='static-libs' tatt_test_pkg "=media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1"

echo >> kvazaar-671044.report

Notice the =media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1: ignoring invalid USE flag combination {'test'} which is the important part that you should get as well.

Even then it's wrong: tatt_test_pkg does a build test. It runs FEATURES=test if you pass the option "--test". The result we need and that I have never seen until now would look like this:

USE='static-libs' tatt_test_pkg --test "=media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1"
USE='static-libs' tatt_test_pkg "=media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1"
USE='-static-libs' tatt_test_pkg "=media-libs/kvazaar-1.2.0-r1"

Oh, never mind, I give up.