Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 15:08:57 schrieb Michał Górny:
> 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 :).

OK now there's just a big fat ewarn that support will be removed on 1/Nov. 

Gives everyone a month time to fix the ebuilds; then we can remove support and 
clean up the eclass.

-- 

Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfri...@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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