[gentoo-dev] Re: Stabilize ebuilds which use EAPIs only supported by ~arch PMs

[Christian Faulhammer]

Hi,

Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o>:

> Hypothetical case: foo-1 (eapi-0) marked as stable and foo-2 (eapi-2)
> with new features marked as testing. A security problem appears
> affecting both. UPSTREAM release foo-3 to solve the security issue.

 Backport the fix or create an EAPI=0 ebuild, as the package manager
will mask EAPIs it cannot understand, so you cannot emerge it anyway.

V-Li
 
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