Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-09-09

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2014-08-30, o godz. 14:54:45
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> I've got an item for the agenda myself:
> 
> mgorny started a thread about the future of dohtml on gentoo-dev [1].
> Nobody has spoken up in favour of keeping the function.
> 
> So, I am asking the council to discuss and vote on the following
> questions:
> - Should dohtml be banned from the package manager?
> - If yes, what would be the time frame? We could ban it in EAPI 6
>   already. Alternatively, we could deprecate it now and ban it in some
>   later EAPI.
> - Do we need a substitute in an eclass? (Note that dohtml in Portage
>   is written in Python, so it would have to be rewritten from
>   scratch.)
> - If the answer to the first question is no: Should einstalldirs in
>   EAPI 6 use dodoc -r for HTML_DOCS, instead of dohtml?

We should also decide how to prepare developers for the change. I think
we could enable warnings for skipped files in earlier EAPIs -- if EAPI
6 will not provide any direct replacement for dohtml, developers may
already start replacing it with dodoc.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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