Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI Changes

[Petteri Räty]

Duncan wrote:
> Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> posted 4A0DD0ED.1070108@g.o,
> excerpted below, on  Fri, 15 May 2009 23:30:37 +0300:
>
>> Indeed there's no problem switching EAPIs as long as a stable Portage
>> supports the EAPI you are migrating to. Portage was buggy with this when
>> EAPI 2 was introduced but that has since been fixed.
>
> The case at hand is EAPI-0 > EAPI-1.  I've no opinion there.
>
> However, just this last week I tracked down and provided a patch for an
> EAPI-0 > EAPI-2 conversion related bug[1] in an existing previously
> working ebuild, converted without a bump.  It was and remained ~arch so
> users should have been prepared to cope, but a bump would have been nice
> and it would have been a SERIOUS mistake to try to do that as stable.
>

Well even with EAPI 2 it's quite hard to introduce breakage if you
actually test the changes. If you don't do proper testing, then the only
way to prevent breakage is to kick that developer out, no policy is
going to help. (I am not implying we should start kicking people out for
small mistakes though)

Regards,
Petteri