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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] version/slot locked dependencies in eclasses like autotools.eclass and vala.eclass
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:34:52
Message-Id: 19783638-8239-afeb-c6a6-dd567d1cb552@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] version/slot locked dependencies in eclasses like autotools.eclass and vala.eclass by Mike Gilbert
1 On 01/22/2018 11:37 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 >>
3 >> If the dependencies are to remain in the eclasses, then the eclasses
4 >> should get a new revision when those dependencies change. Afterwards,
5 >> the consumers can be revbumped and stabilized normally to utilize the
6 >> new eclass.
7 >
8 > While that sounds like the right thing to do in theory, updating all
9 > consumers of autotools.eclass whenever a new version of automake is
10 > stabilized is really a lot of work for very little benefit.
11
12 Is now a good time to reconsider why we're manually listing stable
13 versions of automake in autotools.eclass?

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