On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:03:49 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > The daily updated stats [2] show a slow general trend down. > > There's historical data (well, just a few days right now at [3] > > What are you looking at here? .ebuild files in the tree? Or latest > version per-package? The same as the repoman warnings do, the .ebuild files; to confirm this `grep -r --include='*.ebuild' '^\w*EAPI=\(['"'"'"]1['"'"'"]\|1\)' /usr/portage/ | wc -l` yields 361. > Old EAPI versions are obviously only a burden for developers if there > are actually developers looking at those packages/versions/ebuilds... Maintainership over a package would imply that you also maintain all of its versions, unless you restrict yourself (but then the rest goes m-n); they don't necessarily sit in the way for a maintainer, however, there's still the possibility for people to use them as well as that they cause bugs that stay around and act as noise. But there's something else: Apart from that, they however sit in the way of deprecating support for that EAPI; at one point it becomes tedious to have to support 10 EAPIs in our code (eg. Portage), hence we should aim to deprecate versions of a few years old. Keeping old stuff around can take its toll... -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
