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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog perl-module.eclass
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:29:34
Message-Id: 20140927232924.GB5025@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog perl-module.eclass by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:52:56PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 >
3 > > > Modified: ChangeLog perl-module.eclass
4 > > > Log:
5 > > > Remove support for EAPI 1, 2, 3 in perl-module.eclass (no packages left
6 > > > in the tree)
7 > > This could have used some kind of heads-up. Now I'm getting a lot of
8 > > metadata generation errors due to overlays still using those EAPIs.
9 >
10 > True, this could have been done in more elegant ways, i.e. first an ugly
11 > deprecation warning for some time. (Usually we don't care too much about
12 > overlays. Here, it's g-cpan that concerns me.)
13 >
14 > Would it still make sense to do that?
15 > (i.e. re-allow 123 for a while and add a warning?)
16
17 I wouldn't bother with it, because I don't think you will find a
18 reasonable time that all overlay maintainers will be happy with.
19
20 William
21
22 tree.
23
24 William

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