Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2016-01-10

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Daniel Campbell wrote:

>> I would like the council to vote on banning EAPIs 0 and 3: "EAPIs 0
>> and 3 are banned. This ban includes both new ebuilds and updating
>> the EAPI in existing ebuilds."
>>
>> Since EAPI 1 is on its way out of the tree (only 13 ebuilds left as
>> of today), I think we should also drop the exception which had been
>> added in the 2014-03-11 meeting: "In case of non-maintainer commits
>> to fix dependencies, EAPI=0 ebuilds may be updated to EAPI=1 to
>> keep the changes at a non-intrusive level, as a temporary
>> workaround."

> Is there a particular reason EAPI 2 is left alone, or has it already
> been deprecated/banned?

EAPIs 1 and 2 have been banned already in 2014:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Package_Manager_Specification#EAPI_life_cycle

> I'm generally in favor of lowering the number of EAPIs we need to
> worry about, especially since iirc EAPI 6 brings a handful of nice
> things to the table.

Ulrich