Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2016-01-10

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/27/2015 10:03 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote:
> 
>> the Gentoo Council will meet again on Sunday, January 10 at 19:00
>> UTC in #gentoo-council on FreeNode.
> 
>> Please reply to this message with any items you would like us to
>> discuss or vote on.
> 
> I would like the council to vote on banning EAPIs 0 and 3: "EAPIs 0
> and 3 are banned. This ban includes both new ebuilds and updating
> the EAPI in existing ebuilds."
> 
> Since EAPI 1 is on its way out of the tree (only 13 ebuilds left as
> of today), I think we should also drop the exception which had been
> added in the 2014-03-11 meeting: "In case of non-maintainer commits
> to fix dependencies, EAPI=0 ebuilds may be updated to EAPI=1 to
> keep the changes at a non-intrusive level, as a temporary
> workaround."
> 
> Ulrich
> 

Is there a particular reason EAPI 2 is left alone, or has it already
been deprecated/banned?

I'm generally in favor of lowering the number of EAPIs we need to
worry about, especially since iirc EAPI 6 brings a handful of nice
things to the table.

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