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From: "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@×××××××××.me>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: backward-incompatible changes in eclasses
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:44:55
Message-Id: 20200323184445.GA5066@cloudsdale.the-delta.net.eu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: backward-incompatible changes in eclasses by Joonas Niilola
1 [2020-03-23 20:27:51+0200] Joonas Niilola:
2 > On 3/23/20 8:23 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > but we need to
4 > > find a way to notify them when a breaking change is going into a widely
5 > > used eclass and give them time to adjust their ebuilds.
6 > >
7 > >
8 > > Thoughts?
9 > >
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11 >
12 > AFAIK all major changes have been posted here and pushed with some delay.
13
14 If this one would be taken it would be nice to have breaking changes
15 be noted as so in the Subject.
16
17 I probably should but for packages in my overlay, I have no idea what
18 eclasses are used and doesn't have much quality needs if any that
19 I would read eclass changed to potentially improve the ebuilds in it.
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21 (I do read them for the eclasses that I use in the gentoo & guru repos)