On 31.10.2011 12:27, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Petteri Räty wrote:
> 
>> Let's vote on if you are allowed to remove functions from eclasses (or
>> break the API in general):
> 
>> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f797a983b0d11677a1f781e48ab4e97d.xml
> 
>> Last time this came up a decision wasn't reached:
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20100726-summary.txt
> 
>> The decision should then be documented here:
>> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-writing/index.html
> 
> Why do we need a decision here? Isn't it simply a special case of the
> "adding and updating eclasses" policy?
> 

Because when I joined I was taught to never the API of an eclass. Now
looking at gentoo-dev people want to be doing something else. From the
log provided you can see that the council has explicitly ruled nothing
on the issue yet. I think it would be better if we had something clear
in devmanual.

Regards,
Petteri