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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:51:07 +0100
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:45:37 +0200
Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> wrote:
> And why don't we change the versioning of the EAPI to a "X.Y" scheme
> and demand that changes in the minor version must not break sourcing
> of the ebuild with older package managers and that major versions do.
> Major version numbers are written in the postfix, while minor version
> numbers are written in the ebuild itself as EAPI_MINOR="1". So, the
> current EAPI 1 would then be in fact "0.1".

No point. A 0 package manager still couldn't use a 0.1 ebuild.

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