On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:03:21 +0100
Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Indeed, as pointed out in the other thread on -dev; there are multiple
> possibilities here:
> 
>     1. an edit to an existing ebuild;
> 
>     2. a revision bump;
> 
>     3. a version bump.
> 
> Definitely would want to ban (3), I think banning (2) might be
> possible too if we expect developers to bump EAPI as they revision
> bump (and perhaps give the exception for critical security fixes to
> not have to bump the EAPI), banning (1) gets a bit more tricky.

Bumping to EAPI 5 should always involve a revbump, to avoid a messy
situation with use dependency defaults.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh