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On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 04:21:02PM +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> it's not clear to me what will be the consequences of this change. |
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> I am expecting good faith and that nobody will add an ebuild with deprecated |
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> EAPI just for fun or because maintainer prefers retro stuff. |
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> So looking at the reasons to bump without touching EAPI: |
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> a) Because of a changing dep/add slot operator |
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> b) Because of a security vulnerability. |
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> c) Other critical fixes which should reach users ASAP. |
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> In addition, all of this could happen by non-primary maintainer of the |
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> package. |
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Like a lot of policies and rules in Gentoo there are exceptions. This is |
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why we have various projects and teams that enforce said policies and |
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rules. Finally, we have escalation procedures with various independent |
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bodies to handle it should common sense prove to be an uncommon virtue. |
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We cannot legislate common sense. |
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So many people spending so much time to arrive at an imperfect policy, as |
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usual. |
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-Aaron |
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