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From: David Seifert <soap@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] cvs.eclass: Support EAPI 8, drop EAPI 6 and older
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:55:52
Message-Id: 964c54de2582f94de223034f1f0a298ca3365877.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/3] cvs.eclass: Support EAPI 8, drop EAPI 6 and older by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 12:30 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > > > > > > On Sun, 03 Oct 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote:
3 >
4 > > If they are not, I think it would be reasonable to consider removing
5 > > CVS from the tree on 2022/01/01.
6 >
7 > I disagree. It is still useful as a package even if it hadn't any
8 > reverse dependencies. For example, it is needed when doing conversions
9 > of historical CVS repositories.
10 >
11 > Also projects still use it; OpenBSD may be the most prominent example.
12 >
13 > Ulrich
14
15 Those use cases don't necessitate keeping the eclass though?

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