Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn?

[Matt Turner]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:27 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Andreas K. Huettel
>> > <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is it worth the effort? Yes, see below.
>> >> Is it a high priority task? No.
>> >>
>> >
>> > It sounds like all that has been done is to log a tracker and create
>> > some bugs.  That is hardly a major burden on anybody.  If it nudges
>> > people to bump the EAPI when they're doing other work so much the
>> > better, but there doesn't seem to be a drop-dead date yet.
>> >
>> > If devs don't want to think about EAPI cleanup they don't have to right
>> > now.
>>
>> No, not true. Look at the blocking bugs. We're asking arch teams to
>> retest and restabilize ebuilds whose only difference is the EAPI bump.
>>
>
> Ultimate the arch teams are supposed to test the ebuild (that it works), so
> when we change the EAPI of the ebuild re-testing is required.

Of course, but that's not the point...