On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:52:56PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> 
> > >   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?)

I wouldn't bother with it, because I don't think you will find a
reasonable time that all overlay maintainers will be happy with.

William

tree.

William

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