Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 30/08/12 08:37 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Johannes Huber <johu@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>> Developers have only a limited amount of time, and this will
>>> eat into it.  The result is likely to not be new shiny ebuilds
>>> that use the new EAPIs, but rather old rusty ones that still
>>> use the old EAPI but also which contain other bugs, since they
>>> don't get touched at all (since touching them triggers the new
>>> policy).
>> 
>> You dont need to touch the old ebuild, but if you are touching it
>> for example a version bump, a bug fix etc you should be able to
>> do the EAPI bump as long as you have done the ebuild quizzes ;)
> 
> I'm a proxy maintainer. Meaning I haven't done these quizzes.
> Heck, I've never even seen them. I catch bug reports, come up with
> a solution and pass it back to Markos, who then decides whether or
> not to put it in and give feedback.
> 
> How would this impact me?
> 

If you are rewriting a full ebuild as your solution, and the ebuild
you start with is EAPI<4 , then Markos would appreciate it if you
changed the ebuild to be EAPI=4 (or whatever the latest EAPI is) in
addition to the fix.  Otherwise, just do what you do and Markos
"should" bump the ebuild to EAPI=4 when he applies your fixes.

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