[gentoo-dev] Re: Dropped EAPI 2/3 support in virtualx.eclass

[Duncan]

Justin Lecher posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:23:12 +0000 as excerpted:

> As there are no consumers [1] of the virtualx.eclass using ancient EAPIs
> I dropped support for EAPI=2/3
>
> Best,
> Justin
>
> 1) https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/eapi-per-eclass/virtualx.eclass/
>
>
> diff --git a/eclass/virtualx.eclass b/eclass/virtualx.eclass

Dropped, past tense, the commit is already made to the tree, or will drop 
using that diff, assuming no strong objections here?

Keep in mind that people may still be using it in the overlays even when 
it's out of the main tree.  That isn't on its own a reason to avoid 
dropping it from the eclass in the tree, but part of the idea of posting 
such changes here is to at least warn people maintaining overlays that 
/might/ use it, so they can either port or grab a copy of the eclass for 
their overlay before the change.

So that past-tense "dropped", if indeed that's what it was, looks a bit 
rude, not giving notice at all.  But if it's "dropped in this patch, but 
this patch not yet applied, so will drop in the tree when it is", carry-
on with the usual timing, then. =:^)

(My non-scientific observation seems to indicate at least a week of 
notice appears to be the norm, if there's no substantial changes 
suggested or a wait requested.  If there's a wait requested, for out-of-
tree I'd say perhaps a month, max, no longer necessary for out-of-tree 
unless you simply want to be extra nice, because if nothing else they can 
just grab a copy before the change and if they can't even do /that/ in a 
month... .  Beyond that and the old version can always be dug out of git 
if necessary.)

Either way, thanks for the cleanup. =:^)

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