Dnia 2014-09-23, o godz. 16:52:56
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> 
> > >   Modified:             ChangeLog perl-module.eclass
> > >   Log:
> > >   Remove support for EAPI 1, 2, 3 in perl-module.eclass (no packages left
> > >   in the tree)
> > This could have used some kind of heads-up. Now I'm getting a lot of
> > metadata generation errors due to overlays still using those EAPIs.
> 
> True, this could have been done in more elegant ways, i.e. first an ugly 
> deprecation warning for some time. (Usually we don't care too much about 
> overlays. Here, it's g-cpan that concerns me.)
> 
> Would it still make sense to do that? 
> (i.e. re-allow 123 for a while and add a warning?)

Yes, that would reduce the amount of breakage e.g. due to sunrise
ebuilds using that. Not that I expect people to actually fix the
ebuilds but I'd have a little less chatter during cache regen :).

While at it, please preferably add the warning to phase function so
that it wouldn't show up during metadata regen.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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