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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@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 20:56:01
Message-Id: 201409272255.53046.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in eclass: ChangeLog perl-module.eclass by "Michał Górny"
1 Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 15:08:57 schrieb Michał Górny:
2 > Dnia 2014-09-23, o godz. 16:52:56
3 >
4 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> napisał(a):
5 > > > > Modified: ChangeLog perl-module.eclass
6 > > > > Log:
7 > > > > Remove support for EAPI 1, 2, 3 in perl-module.eclass (no packages
8 > > > > left in the tree)
9 > > >
10 > > > This could have used some kind of heads-up. Now I'm getting a lot of
11 > > > metadata generation errors due to overlays still using those EAPIs.
12 > >
13 > > True, this could have been done in more elegant ways, i.e. first an ugly
14 > > deprecation warning for some time. (Usually we don't care too much about
15 > > overlays. Here, it's g-cpan that concerns me.)
16 > >
17 > > Would it still make sense to do that?
18 > > (i.e. re-allow 123 for a while and add a warning?)
19 >
20 > Yes, that would reduce the amount of breakage e.g. due to sunrise
21 > ebuilds using that. Not that I expect people to actually fix the
22 > ebuilds but I'd have a little less chatter during cache regen :).
23
24 OK now there's just a big fat ewarn that support will be removed on 1/Nov.
25
26 Gives everyone a month time to fix the ebuilds; then we can remove support and
27 clean up the eclass.
28
29 --
30
31 Andreas K. Huettel
32 Gentoo Linux developer
33 dilfridge@g.o
34 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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