Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2013-04-09

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 30 Mar 2013, Micha³ Górny wrote:

> I would like the Council to take an initial look, and possible vote
> on switching to a newer bash version (preferably bash-4.2, stable
> Sep 2012) in the next EAPI (bug #431340 [1]).

AFAICS, bash-4.2_p20 went stable in March 2012 already. [2]

> This would need some kind of schedule since it depends on EAPI
> parsing which went stable in Jul 2012). If the transition period
> needs to be extended, I'd prefer having it in EAPI 6 anyway but
> adding a policy like 'do not use it in global scope until ...', so
> that pre-EAPI-6 package manager compatibility would be retained.

This could be done of course. But extrapolating from previous EAPIs,
I think that we can't expect EAPI 6 to be ready before July anyway.

Ulrich

> [1]:https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=431340

[2] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-shells/bash/bash-4.2_p20.ebuild?hideattic=0&revision=1.11&view=markup