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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