Re: problem emerging 'vte'

"D. Ben Knoble" <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:06:05 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 10:46 AM Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For a long time, Portage has been nagging me
> that I need to update 'x11-libs/vte', which is needed for Xfce Terminal,
> but when I try it fails with an error close to the end.
> That was the latest stable 0.80.4-r1 ; today, I tried "testing" 0.82.2 ,
> but ran into a similar error at the same point in the compile.
>
> Below are the requested files : can anyone suggest what's wrong ?

> Vte-2.91.gir:16.3-16.17: error: unknown child element `doc:format' in `repository'

A quick search:

https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=unknown+child+element+%60doc%3Aformat%27+in+%60repository%27

points me at
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8872865.html?sid=daee737f50f8396cdb3d58741ebc472d
and several bugs.gentoo.org hits.