Re: [gentoo-project] Council meeting 2021-07-11 - call for agenda items

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 2021-07-05 at 12:17 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 05 Jul 2021, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>
> > The agenda is still open for additional items that the council
> > should
> > discuss or vote on. For agenda items, please respond to this message
> > on the gentoo-project mailing list.
>
> Replying to my own message. :)
>
> Now that EAPI is supported by stable Portage (3.0.20-r6 went stable
> on the last arch today), I would like to ask the council to deprecate
> EAPI 6, both for ebuilds and for profiles.
>
> In the past, the council had also banned EAPIs. However, that didn't
> make much of a practical difference because an EAPI cannot be added
> to eapis-banned in layout.conf unless all ebuilds are gone. Maybe we
> should have a rule like the following instead:
> "A deprecated EAPI is considered banned when the Gentoo repository
> no longer contains any ebuilds using it."

While I understand your point, I agree with others that there is a value
in having a non-technically-enforced ban, i.e. keeping the overall
process as:

1) deprecate the EAPI (i.e. "please avoid using this EAPI"),

2) formally ban the EAPI (i.e. "do not use it in new ebuilds, unless you
have
a really good reason to"),

3) entirely ban the EAPI (i.e. technically prevent ebuilds with it).

I agree that technically 2) doesn't change much but I'd prefer if we
could avoid "EAPI n is only deprecated, so it's fine to still use it!"
argument.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny