Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Coucil meeting 2020-11-08

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 26 Oct 2020, Michał Górny wrote:

> I would like to request the Council to vote on pre-approval of EAPI 8
> items [1].

For easy reference, please find the complete list below. The PMS team
will start working on the specification after pre-approval of features.

Of course, the finished PMS spec for EAPI 8 will be brought before the
Council again, for final approval.


1. New features

a) Selective fetch restriction
   Bug #371413 [2]

b) Install-time CBUILD dependencies (IDEPEND)
   Bug #660306 [3]


2. Enhancements of existing features

a) Variant of || ( ) with defined runtime behaviour
   Bug #489458 [4]
   - From original EAPI 6 (and 7) feature list

b) Pass --datarootdir to configure
   Bug #651958 [5]

c) Pass --disable-static to configure
   Bug #744871 [6]

d) Accumulate PROPERTIES and RESTRICT over eclasses and ebuilds
   Bug #701132 [7]

e) RESTRICT value for network-restricted tests
   Bug #553696 [8]

f) dosym -r to create symlinks relative to link location
   Bug #708360 [9]

g) Second optional argument for usev
   Bug #744868 [10]


3. Other changes

a) Less strict naming rules for files in updates directory
   Bug #692774 [11]

b) Bash 5.0
   Bug #636652 [12]

c) More consistent insopts/exeopts
   Bug #657580 [13]


4. Removals and bans

a) unpack: Remove support for 7-Zip, RAR, and LHA
    Bug #690968 [14]


> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Future_EAPI/EAPI_8_tentative_features

[2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/371413
[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/660306
[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/489458
[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/651958
[6] https://bugs.gentoo.org/744871
[7] https://bugs.gentoo.org/701132
[8] https://bugs.gentoo.org/553696
[9] https://bugs.gentoo.org/708360
[10] https://bugs.gentoo.org/744868
[11] https://bugs.gentoo.org/692774
[12] https://bugs.gentoo.org/636652
[13] https://bugs.gentoo.org/657580
[14] https://bugs.gentoo.org/690968