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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:33:29
Message-Id: CAJ0EP419T8nTEp=u44pDvzjptKMYBu59VYN7CGXihqdb+zxUOw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care by Lars Wendler
1 On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o> wrote:
2 > Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet, so
3 > we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old systems.
4
5 What's the time frame for lifting that restriction?
6
7 There are some key packages that base-system does not maintain, and it
8 would be good to have a documented guideline for it.
9
10 For example, I maintain the dev-lang/python ebuilds, and I will
11 probably be jumping to EAPI 6 whenever Python 3.6 is released.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>