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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-3 times and dates
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:55:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5975FD.1010009@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100122094627.TA4624b.tv@veller.net>

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On 01/22/2010 10:58 AM, Torsten Veller wrote:
> EAPI-3 was approved by the council during their last meeting (2010-01-18).
> 
> Which portage versions do support it?
> (I wasn't able to find it in the docs.)
> 

I haven't heard of a release that would.

> When can we stabilize EAPI-3 ebuilds?
> (I guess this is again a council decision?)
> 

When a Portage version supporting EAPI-3 is stable. Council can
acknowledge at this point.

> How long do we have to provide ebuilds for older EAPIs?
> (We can drop them as long as users are able to upgrade to an EAPI-3
> capable package-manager for at least one year from now/after
> stabilisation?)
> 

Normally ebuild developers can just use the latest. As you said the only
thing that matters is the package manager upgrade path and that only
concerns a few packages.

Regards,
Petteri


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-22  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-22  8:58 [gentoo-dev] EAPI-3 times and dates Torsten Veller
2010-01-22  9:55 ` Petteri Räty [this message]
2010-02-23 10:49   ` [gentoo-dev] Who is interested by maintaining gnash ? Romain Perier
2010-01-29 21:43 ` [gentoo-dev] EAPI-3 times and dates Zac Medico
2010-01-29 21:45   ` Jacob Godserv
2010-01-29 21:49     ` Zac Medico
2010-01-31 14:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2010-01-31 17:51   ` Zac Medico

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