>>>>> On Tue, 06 Jul 2021, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:

> On 2021-07-05 12:17, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> Now that EAPI is supported by stable Portage (3.0.20-r6 went stable
>> on the last arch today), I would like to ask the council to deprecate
>> EAPI 6, both for ebuilds and for profiles.

> Could you please outline the consequences of that?

> I mean, it's still allowed to rev bump an EAPI 6 ebuild to add an
> important patch (like fixing a security vulnerability) or fix deps, 
> especially for non-maintainers without requiring ebuild to be ported
> to a non-deprecated EAPI first, right?

> I.e. "just like before".

> You are not talking about changing that.

Deprecated means that usage of the EAPI will be discouraged, and that
QA tools (e.g. repoman) will warn about it. [1]

Ulrich

[1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20130409-summary.txt