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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:23:08
Message-Id: CAEdQ38Gb-QsnmUe8CWUUr=M=28VXYRz=1TTnwSqDaMKNm2OxtQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn? by Rich Freeman
1 On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Is it worth the effort? Yes, see below.
5 >> Is it a high priority task? No.
6 >>
7 >
8 > It sounds like all that has been done is to log a tracker and create
9 > some bugs. That is hardly a major burden on anybody. If it nudges
10 > people to bump the EAPI when they're doing other work so much the
11 > better, but there doesn't seem to be a drop-dead date yet.
12 >
13 > If devs don't want to think about EAPI cleanup they don't have to right now.
14
15 No, not true. Look at the blocking bugs. We're asking arch teams to
16 retest and restabilize ebuilds whose only difference is the EAPI bump.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Is removing old EAPIs worth the churn? Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>