Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eutils.eclass: Use optfeature() from optfeature.eclass
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 07:37:42
Message-Id: uft7ughqf@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eutils.eclass: Use optfeature() from optfeature.eclass by David Seifert
1 >>>>> On Sun, 06 Sep 2020, David Seifert wrote:
2
3 > On Sun, 2020-09-06 at 21:49 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
4 >> Maybe just commit the new eclass, update ebuilds, then remove the
5 >> function from eutils?
6
7 > I'll get a lot of heat for breaking EAPI 2 ebuilds in some random
8 > abandoned overlay because we guarantee eclass API backwards
9 > compatibility for 20 years!
10
11 optfeature affects only elog output, so there won't be any real
12 breakage.
13
14 And of course, there should be some grace period (I'd suggest 30 days)
15 between steps 2 and 3.
16
17 Ulrich

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