Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:30:21
Message-Id: ab1343bbc3a9c127435b77c7511981969e759ec8.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] LTS branch of Portage by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 13:16 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 17:13 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > >
4 > > > 2. What happens to the LTS branch when the next EAPI is released?
5 > > >
6 > >
7 > > I haven't really thought about it. Are you suggesting that we could
8 > > bump 'master' Portage to newer EAPI earlier or...?
9 > >
10 >
11 > I just mean that, a priori, the LTS branch won't be able to install
12 > ebuilds that use the next EAPI. Backporting an entire EAPI doesn't seem
13 > appropriate for a stable series; but maintaining an increasingly-
14 > obsolete branch at that point doesn't make much sense either.
15
16 Ah, that makes sense. Indeed, I suppose a new EAPI will be a good point
17 of switching master to LTS.
18
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20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny