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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:25:15
Message-Id: 52F8E13F.9030903@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules by Patrick Lauer
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4 On 10/02/14 08:46 AM, Patrick Lauer wrote:
5 > On 02/10/2014 09:23 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
6 >> The statement "Deprecating an EAPI can mean breakage" depends on
7 >> what we mean by "deprecating." I'm assuming here we mean
8 >> something like repoman won't allow commits at EAPI=1,2,3 but that
9 >> ebuilds in the tree at those EAPI's will continue working. Eg.
10 >> dosed which was deprecated in the EAPI 3 to 4 jump.
11 >
12 > Right now EAPI 1 and 2 are deprecated, which means repoman prints
13 > some warnings that get ignored and nothing happens.
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15 Back when these were deprecated, the general consensus was that we
16 shouldn't change (especially stable) ebuilds in the tree and just
17 upgrade when we revbump or version bump.
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19 Is this still true? If so, I'm wondering how many of those older-EAPI
20 ebuilds are just plain old...
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