From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nn7aL-0001Ge-W0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:43:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 423F3E0E05; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F8CE0D89 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:43:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id o249h0pW012379 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:43:00 +0100 Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o249h0tA009259; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:43:00 +0100 Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o249h0JC009256; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:43:00 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <19343.32932.875175.8128@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:43:00 +0100 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deprecation of python_version(), python_mod_exists(), python_tkinter_exists(), distutils_python_version() and distutils_python_tkinter() in EAPI <=2 In-Reply-To: <4B8F677E.2070502@gentoo.org> References: <201003021927.18379.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4B8E0747.4050008@gentoo.org> <20100303015253.7930de6f@gentoo.org> <4B8E2229.3010408@gentoo.org> <8b4c83ad1003030123j171325a7o105b7887d40c0303@mail.gmail.com> <4B8E437D.2050504@gentoo.org> <20100303064011.08bd999d@gentoo.org> <4B8E867D.4060908@gentoo.org> <20100303153919.0f4744b4@gentoo.org> <4B8F5DAE.9040906@gentoo.org> <19343.25505.839827.273840@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4B8F677E.2070502@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.0-beta under 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) From: Ulrich Mueller Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 9059c119-c53e-4aea-93cd-1a11a0b493a9 X-Archives-Hash: 81284b4a1ba0fa2827674521a8169ea3 >>>>> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010, Petteri R=E4ty wrote: >> I think removal of functions is a special case of "Adding and >> Updating Eclasses" and we already have a policy for this. > Removing functions needs a migration plan. For example how long to > have a warning there, how long before it can be removed etc. There may be no general answer to these questions. If it's an eclass with limited scope and if the functions are no longer used in the tree, then I don't see the need for a long transition period. OTOH, for widespread eclasses like eutils you'd probably want it. > I don't see how you can get those from the common policy? "If you don't email gentoo-dev first, and end up breaking something, expect to be in a lot of trouble." Ulrich