Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-03-11

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> Dnia 2014-03-03, o godz. 15:05:12
> Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> napisał(a):
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>> On 03/03/14 02:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> > Dnia 2014-03-03, o godz. 12:14:13 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
>> > napisał(a):
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>> >> Can we clarify that the ban includes updating the EAPI in
>> >> existing ebuilds?
>> >
>> > So how we are supposed to handle updating rev-deps to use proper
>> > slot? Convert ancient versions to a new EAPI or just drop them
>> > completely?
>> >
>>
>> That's up to you, as maintainer, isn't it?
>
> If I am fixing a few dozen ebuilds due to change in dependency package,
> I'm not the maintainer.

I think we do need to be careful about not creating barriers to
maintenance like this.  If people are given the choice of doing a lot
of work to make a small improvement vs not doing an improvement at
all, they'll often pick the latter.

We definitely want to phase out the old EAPIs, but changes to existing
ebuilds shouldn't require bringing them fully up-to-date.  It should
be done if it makes sense, however (at the discretion of the person
doing the work).

Rich