Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-02-25

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:

> Indeed, as pointed out in the other thread on -dev; there are
> multiple possibilities here:

>     1. an edit to an existing ebuild;

>     2. a revision bump;

>     3. a version bump.

> Definitely would want to ban (3), I think banning (2) might be
> possible too if we expect developers to bump EAPI as they revision
> bump (and perhaps give the exception for critical security fixes to
> not have to bump the EAPI), banning (1) gets a bit more tricky.

Banning (1) is not a good idea, because it would get in the way of
simple tasks like updating KEYWORDS, LICENSE, or *DEPEND.

Ulrich